Hal Abelson
Kim Bruce
Abstract
Recently, the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) has decided to redesign the Advanced Placement (AP) examination in computer science (CS) so that AP courses will be forced to switch from Pascal to C++ starting around 1998.
Index Terms
- The first-course conundrum
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