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[Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Apr 17 07:23:13 CEST 2014 
On 4/16/2014 6:26 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>> AP exams are starting to allow Python, but it's 10% of the AP CS exams.
>
> "AP"?
> (I thought that was me, but it sounds unlikely :-))

AP = Advanced Placement. US and Canadian high school students who have 
taken advanced (AP) courses equivalent to American college freshman 
courses can take AP exams to demonstrate that they learned and retained 
enough that they should get college credit for the course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement

I believe there is a committee for each subject that sets out a syllabus 
describing the subject that may be tested. The CS exam originally tested 
knowledge of Pascal (1984-1999) and switched to C++ (1999-2003) and then 
Java (2004-date).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement_Computer_Science#AP_Computer_Science_A

The report is that Python is creeping in, though I an not sure exactly 
what the report above means. Python replacing Java as the AP CS language 
would be a fairly big deal here.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy
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