Did Computer Science seem more like a language class than a computers class

Test Preparation AP Mathematics & Computer Science
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<p>I just finished taking Comp Sci, and when I first heard about the class, I thought it was going to be computer programming with like modeling and stuff (like graph theory + probability on the computer). However, after taking it, it seemed more like a language class, as I heard from people in other schools that they barely used a computer (maybe once every two weeks) and just learned things on paper...and they all got 4/5s on the test.</p>

<p>So I was wondering for all of you guys that took it, did it seem more like an AP Foreign Language class than like a AP Math/Science class? Should they rename AP Computer Science like AP Java because the title was really misleading.</p>

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<p>Maybe if you took the A version. A is on programming logic and flow using Java. I mean, they have to use some language, right?</p>

<p>AB was very much a computer science course/test in every sense of the word. The majority of the test was on data structures (linked lists, doubly linked lists, binary search trees, heaps, queues, stacks, etc) and algorithm efficiency and analysis.</p>

<p>We learned most of ours on paper. Maybe you’re confused because it’s “computer science” and not “programming”. Djikstra once said that computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy does with telescopes.</p>