Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!cuccia From: cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: Should Computer Science be taught at the High School level? Message-ID: <3965@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 01:44:29 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.3965 Posted: Mon Dec 31 01:44:29 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 04:09:18 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 22 Greetings - Mayfield has been teaching Computer Science as an elective for three years with Advanced Placement Computer Science being offered One thing I'm curious about is what schools are accepting the Computer Science Advanced Placement test as a substitute for a required computer science course; who gives studens credit for taking the test and scoring a 4 or above? A recent InfoWorld (don't have the date, but can find it) stated that UC-Berkeley and MIT weren't giving credit for high scores, but Stanford was. My old high school is just getting started with teaching computer science courses (although the community's other high school has been teaching programming on PDP-8s for about ten years or so), and its principal looks to me for 'the pulse of academic computing'--whatever that is... I would also be interested in what would be suitable for teaching in high school CS courses, but also who accepts/does not accept the CS AP test in lieu of a required course. --Nick Cuccia --cuccia%ucbmiro@ucbvax (ARPANET) --ucbvax!cuccia (USENET)