Learn Java programming and computer science fundamentals.
← Back to AP CoursesAP Computer Science A introduces students to computer science through programming in Java. Students cultivate their understanding of coding through analyzing, writing, and testing code as they explore concepts like modularity, variables, and control structures.
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You'll learn the fundamentals of Java, a programming language, and other foundational concepts for coding. You'll explore reference data as a way to represent real-world objects in a digital world and discover methods to perform more complex operations.
You'll delve into the building blocks of algorithms and focus on using conditional statements to solve problems and control results. You'll learn about iteration, another building block of algorithms that are for repetition.
You'll explore how real-world interactions can be expressed digitally by organizing behaviors and attributes into classes.
You'll learn techniques and standard algorithms to work with collections of related data, known as data structures. You'll delve deeper into data sets, exploring array, ArrayList of objects, and 2D arrays.