Academics · Grades 9–11

AP Computer Science Principles

Computer science as ideas, with real programming underneath.

Course overview

  • Homework: 60 minutes a week
BeforePython 3: Algorithms
AfterAP Computer Science A

What you’ll learn

The five big ideas

  • Creative development — designing, building, and debugging a program
  • Data — representation, compression, and what a dataset will and will not tell you
  • Algorithms and programming — the largest share of the exam
  • Computer systems and networks
  • The impact of computing, and the responsibility that comes with it

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