On Saturday April 5, 2008, Jonah Bossewitch wrote: 

>    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/04/03/ 
>    ST2008040303977.html
>    
>    Pretty disheartening considering the declining interest in CS  
>    majors.... so much for switching to python on the AP exam. Even java  
>    is better than no AP (mostly ;-) )
>    
>    /jsb

My read on that article is that they are only cutting the AB version
of the exam (that is the more advanced version, somewhat akin to CS1+CS2).
The A version of the exam (akin to CS1) remains intact.

So you've still got the Java exam rather than no exam (careful what
you wish for!)

With regard,
Michael

       +-----------------------------------------------
       | Michael Goldwasser
       | Associate Professor
       | Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science
       | Saint Louis University
       | 220 North Grand Blvd.
       | St. Louis, MO 63103-2007

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