Wow. That is probably the worst idea I have ever heard about AP exams. Right now I'm going into my third year of CS at UIUC and I'll be dammned if any professor wants to waste a whole course on teaching.NET. First of all, in my opinion, it sucks. Second, CS is more math and algorithm oriented than frameworks and language specifics.
AP exams are supposed to measure to a degree (quite bad from what I have seen) how you would do in a first year course at some university. I would really like to know which university will give.NET as a first (or even second) year language... So far I have seen here an Intro to programming with Java, some nasty discrete mathematics course, an Intro to data structures and algorithms with C++, some more nasty computational theory, more and more math, and so forth... Maybe that is what the AP should be aiming for... not just some stupid syntactical questions to be filled out on a scantron sheet.
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Wow. That is probably the worst idea I have ever heard about AP exams. Right now I'm going into my third year of CS at UIUC and I'll be dammned if any professor wants to waste a whole course on teaching .NET. First of all, in my opinion, it sucks. Second, CS is more math and algorithm oriented than frameworks and language specifics.
AP exams are supposed to measure to a degree (quite bad from what I have seen) how you would do in a first year course at some university. I would really like to know which university will give .NET as a first (or even second) year language... So far I have seen here an Intro to programming with Java, some nasty discrete mathematics course, an Intro to data structures and algorithms with C++, some more nasty computational theory, more and more math, and so forth... Maybe that is what the AP should be aiming for... not just some stupid syntactical questions to be filled out on a scantron sheet.