<p>I am planning to self study for AP computer science. I want to get a text book that will thoroughly prepare me for the up to date AP exam. I don't know the difference between the AB exam and A exam so I don't know how each test is beneficial in terms of college credits. Can someone please give me some sort of outline on how to study for this AP exam? thanks :D</p>
<p>anyone???</p>
<p>This is definitely not an exam you can study straight out of a book. Programming can be very theoretical, although there will be questions requiring you to analyze a chunk of code and its output. First, of course, you could purchase a [prep</a> book](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_8?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ap%20computer%20science&sprefix=ap+compu%2Caps%2C322&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aap%20computer%20science]prep”>http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_8?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ap%20computer%20science&sprefix=ap+compu%2Caps%2C322&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aap%20computer%20science), to get a sense of how this exam is. I don’t know about the differences of each exam, but as far as I know AB has been removed due to lack of test-takers or something, (correct me if I’m wrong, but I only see one AP course on the website). Last but not least, download Eclipse or NetBeans. I assume you know what that is by now. </p>
<p>The test places you out differently depending on your institution. Every school is different. Since the exam covers Java, this course technically places you out of introductory Java or something related to Introduction to Computer Science. </p>
<p>How do you study for this exam? Well, pretending that I don’t know anything about Java, I’d definitely buy a prep book. Along with the prep book, I’d read through some tutorials on Java programming, (there are thousands of websites concerning this). Just to give you a few, [this</a> is one](<a href=“http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/]this”>Java Tutorial), [this</a> is one](<a href=“http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/CatalogJava.htm]this”>Java Tutorial), [and</a> this is one](<a href=“http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/c6/s1.html]and”>Javanotes 9, Section 6.1 -- A Basic JavaFX Application). Good luck!</p>