Daughter is having scheduling issues as a junior in high school. She wants to take AP computer science. But due to other challening class, she is having difficulty to fit in this class. I told het that she can take a computer intro class at a local community college that is offered on line. In addition our local state university is offering a similar in classroom class in summer but only for 6 weeks. I do not know if these classes are AP equivalent or not. How do we find it out?
Because she attends a prep school, she will miss her state university class by one week.
Is there any other alternative people can suggest. Thanks
In my opinion, a class doesn’t need to be the AP equivalent. For computer science, any class that introduces the subject is just fine. I would always prefer in classroom to online for an intro course. I would go with the 6 week summer course.
If she wants just a very basic intro, code academy is a good place to start, but I think an in-person course would still be better. I’d recommend python for beginners.
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python
@PengsPhils she already knows python as she self taught it last summer. Thanks for the link
Ah, so she already has programming experience. In that case, for sure do the college course.