Sounds good to me, David. Good luck putting it over. Maybe after we get 10 million hits on PyWhip?
Andy On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:36 AM, David MacQuigg <macqu...@ece.arizona.edu>wrote: > Litvin wrote: > > What might this new exam be like? CS with no programming and no math? >> We'll see. My guess is, if it eventually comes about, it will be a >> no-specific-programming-language exam, which will simply replace the current >> AP CS exam in Java. I believe two AP CS exams will be untenable. >> > > I can't imagine teaching or testing CS without an actual language. A much > better alternative would be to have the same test in multiple languages > (perhaps with a "handicap" factor for the students choosing Python, so they > don't have an embarrassing advantage :>). If you find a problem that is not > easily translated to another language, that is a clue that the problem is > about cruft, not fundamentals. I would volunteer to do the Java to Python > translations. > > -- Dave > > ************************************************************ * > * David MacQuigg, PhD email: macquigg at ece.arizona.edu * * > * Research Associate phone: USA 520-721-4583 * * * > * ECE Department, University of Arizona * * * > * 9320 East Mikelyn Lane * * * > * http://purl.net/macquigg Tucson, Arizona 85710 * > ************************************************************ * > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -- Andrew N. Harrington Director of Academic Programs Computer Science Department Loyola University Chicago 512B Lewis Towers (office) Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416 820 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 http://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh Phone: 312-915-7982 Fax: 312-915-7998 g...@cs.luc.edu for graduate administration u...@cs.luc.edu for undergrad administration ahar...@luc.edu as professor
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