Originally Posted by uman

For British etc. type people who don't know what that is, it's basically a test you take at the end of taking a certain class in school... in America we have a shitty and mega easy curriculum with no end-of-school test, AP classes were created as optional harder classes to alleviate that problem. You take the test in the class at the end and then usually you don't have to sit through lame introductory classes your first year at university. The level is generally comparable to the French bac, German abitur, whatever the Brits have, etc. I'm going to take it as a free candidate, having not taken the class in HS, which means I'll have to learn both the Java language and academic CS principles on my own. I know most of the latter but not the former which is why I want to make some stuff in it!