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From: cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia)
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Subject: Re: Should Computer Science be taught at the High School level?
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Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 01:44:29 EST
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    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
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