Overall, participation has grown significantly across all AP computer science classes. Between 2007 and 2016, there was a steady rise from 20,041 to 57,937 participants.

AP Computer Science Principles stemmed from a conversation between Janice Cuny, program director for broadening participation and education in computing, and the College Board.

After just one year in high schools, the course more than doubled the number of female and underrepresented students who took a computer science AP exam. In 2016, only 12,642 female students took ...

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In 2007, 15,049 students had enrolled in an AP computer science course. But since last year, with the rollout of the new AP Computer Science Principles course, 104,849 students took the exam this ...

More than 29,700 female students took an AP computer science exam in 2017, a 135% increase from 2016 and a dramatic increase from the 2,600 female students that took the AP Computer Science exam ...

Computer science for all is happening in some schools. ... if any, of the College Board’s new course, AP Computer Science Principles. Â Uche: While CS has, in the past, ...

AP computer science principles draws more female, Black and Latino students than an older AP computer science course focused on coding, the College Board found in a study released Wednesday.

More young women took an Advanced Placement Computer Science exam last year than in 2007 through 2013 combined, thanks largely to a new course designed with them in mind. Last summer, College Board ...

More expensive computer science guides that give you an in-depth understanding of the principles range from $25-$40, and premium, college-level textbooks can go for as much as $100 or more. AP ...