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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