Earn College Credit from IIT to Replace the AP Computer Science AB Exam in 2010
The final AP Computer Science AB exam has been given. What are you going to do with your returning students who are ready for an advanced programming course? If you are still planning on teaching a Data Structures course in Java in the 2009-2010 school year, you can augment your instruction, and get your students college credit, by having your students take an online class at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Data Structures and Algorithms (CS 331) in parallel with the second semester of your course in the Spring 2010 semester.
CS 331 is taught by Dr. Mattox Beckman, IIT award-winning teacher in the Computer Science department.
Your students who have completed a CS1 equivalent course (or the AP CS A course/exam), will be admitted as a non-degree student at IIT, and register for CS 331 as an online student in Spring 2010.
The online lectures, streaming video and synchronized slides, are made available directly from the Spring 2010 semester's live class at IIT. You, or another CS faculty at your school, will be supplied with materials to assist with the programming laboratory portion of the class. And you will proctor the exams given by Dr. Beckman.
CS 331 Course Outcomes are:
- Explain, implement, and apply the following data-structures: lists (unordered and ordered), stacks, queues, expression trees, binary search trees, heaps, hash tables.
- Analyze the time and space complexity of algorithms using asymptotic upper bounds (big-O notation).
- Explain and use references and linked structures.
- Outline basic object-oriented concepts: composition, inheritance, polymorphism.
- Write and test recursive procedures, and explain the run-time stack concept.
- Analyze searching and sorting algorithms, and explain their relationship to data structures.
- Choose and implement appropriate data-structures to solve an application problem.
- Explain how to use unit tests and version control in your software development.
If you are a Chicago Public School (CPS) student, tuition is covered by the CPS College Bridge Program, of which IIT is a member.
Funding may be available for non-CPS students to register at a reduced IIT tuition rate.
For the Spring 2010 term, applications are due by Nov 15, 2009.
For more information and late applications, please contact Matthew Bauer at bauerm@iit.edu.
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