Two Semesters
Semester 1. Practice App with Video, write up, and code. = practice for AP EXam
Semester 2. CREATE - Performance Task
Assessment Overview and Performance Task Directions for Students (2020-2021)
New Performance Task - Create
Student Handouts (Includes template and directions - MUST READ)
AP CSP Create Performance Task Examples for 2021
FRI, APR 30, 2021, 11:59 P.M. ET
Deadline to Submit AP Computer Science Principles Performance Task
Old Performance Task.
Create - 2018 AP scoring guidelines - also attached below
"Robotics engineer Barbie, dressed in jeans, a graphic T-shirt, denim jacket and wearing safety glasses, comes with six free Barbie-inspired coding lessons designed to teach logic, problem-solving and the building blocks of coding.
The lessons show girls, for example, how to build robots, get them to move at a dance party, or do jumping jacks.
According to US Department of Commerce statistics, only 24 percent of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) jobs were held by women in 2017."
2017 Student App winner in the Congressional App contest
“The computer has [Javascript] on it and you can see various instances of game engines on her laptop,” she told The Huffington Post, adding that the project was personally important to her. “I really know that girls need an icon that shows that they can be a part of the [tech] space and Barbie does that. She has power to tell girls they can be makers and builders.”
Performance Task - Explore (No longer used by AP)
Before you start - pdf
Explore - AP scoring guidelines 2018
Infograph - also
Excellent examples
2019 Explore Examples
2018 Explore Examples
2017 Explore Examples
Good Examples of Create Performance Task
(Remember - these are the old performance tasks.)
2020 Create Example: Write up Code Video (not the one turned in)
2019 Create Examples
2018 Create Examples
2017 Create Examples
“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” —Jim Rohn.