<p>I'm on spring break now, and i'm starting to seriously study for APs...
Anyone know anything about Princeton Review's and McGraw-Hill's books?</p>
<p>and if i've been working pretty steadily on it throughout the year, any advice on what all i should do? (I'm taking the A exam..)</p>
<p>Just cheat man.</p>
<p>i certainly hope you're joking, but out of complete, innocent curiosity how could you on standardized tests? </p>
<p>i guess i'm not very creative.</p>
<p>Like... there's 6 sides in pencil right? I just write on it to make cheating-pencil. And since im asian, write stuffs in hands/arms with yellowish pen or markers.</p>
<p>I know ALOT of stuffs in school, but now standarized tests.</p>
<p>Oh, in SAT's, i use calculator to store stuffs.</p>
<p>lmao -- yellowish markers? XDD right!</p>
<p>I really wish i was black tho.</p>
<p>yes, black markers tend to be slightly more visible, regardless of background, AND more common than yellow ones... </p>
<p>Orange Juice, just wondering, but have you taken the AP CS exam?</p>
<p>aquilastor: u have to stop "wondering" man. u have to just flat out ask the question.</p>
<p>No, never taken the CS.</p>
<p>okay, thanks</p>
<p>I want to take this next year, I'm planning on learning Java bymyself. You think it might be to hard?</p>
<p>no, it's not very hard..
my teacher honestly never taught a thing; in fact, he isn't very familiar with java, for he's doing a distant-learning phD in c++ or something else.
the way we learnt it was mostly read the textbook, write some programs, ask questions, and get them answered by other people in the class/have teacher google it and come up with something. what our teacher primarily did was provide resources.. and that shouldn't be too hard to find yourself...</p>
<p>so you should be able to do it pretty easily... do you want to know what books we used, tennispro?</p>
<p>well i learned CS by backwords engineering cracked exes from copyrighted software... yea and java, just look at the source of random free internet games/apps</p>
<p>and writing on ur hand is ng, keep a ppr in ur sleeve or the pocket on the inside of ur jacket</p>
<p>i have the princeton review's cracking the computer science exam and its a pretty helpful....but there's also a workbook that came with my textbook thats extremely helpful. what textbook do you use? (p.s. im taking the A exam too)</p>
<p>we used um.. maria and gary litvin's Java Methods book... we finished that around last semester-ish, and this semester we've been reviewing and taking mocks pretty much every other class..</p>
<p>what text do you guys use?</p>
<p>Sorry I haven't noticed this post. First, you are taking the A exam so you don't have to worry too much. I would get barrons and study the algorithms. Coding a lot helps, and there is no way around that. Many 7th graders who can code well can walk in and take the exam cold and get a 5. </p>
<p>DO NOT go online and study applet code. You have to understand that the AP examiners like to see nicely written elegant code. 99% of the people who program out their write hodge podge ****ty code. If you want good examples, study textbooks. Again, I cannot stress enough the importance of coding for fun. </p>
<p>I would recommend checking out this part of my website. I took the AB exam last year and composed a study guide for my class. If you can go through and understand these and recode these, you're set. Note that some have been optimized.</p>
<p>Look for college computer science resources online. Some colleges have online notes and slideshows that cover from primitive data types to Advanced OO programming with graphics.</p>