Van “Kendy” Nguyen, 16, didn’t know anything about computer science. Gradi Kabeya, 17, hadn’t done any coding before but said computer science seemed cool and useful.

Computer Science Placement This placement test will help you determine which of the following two courses is appropriate for your enrollment (COSI 10a or COSI 12b). Note: If you have taken the AP ...

Greenwich student gets perfect score on AP computer science test, one of few in country to do so By Amanda Cuda, Staff writer Updated Sep 26, 2023 11:46 a.m.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology had FIVE students with perfect scores in Computer Science A (AP CSA) in 2017, the most for any school in a single STEM subject.

Sweet’s AP Computer Science Principles class at Renaissance High School had 35 students, 63 percent of whom were female. All but two of his students decided to take the final exam, and 27 passed.

In 2016, only 177 New York City girls passed an AP computer-science exam, officials said. In 2018, 1,266 earned the distinction.

The increases are largely due to a new AP computer science class launched in 2016-17 that focuses less on Java coding and more on what the College Board describes as the “big ideas” behind computer ...

Of the 34 AP subject exams administered in 2014, computer science experienced the highest annual growth rate, with the number of exams administered increasing by 26 percent since 2013 to 39,278 ...

Yet of the five AP computer science test-takers, all were white or Asian and male. The District of Columbia had the largest percentage of African-American test-takers, at 22 percent.