RE: Scheme acceptance [no flames]

["Merrill, Andrew" <MerrillA@catlin.edu>]

No, Visual Basic is not used on the AP exam, has not been used, and (to my
knowledge) is not under consideration to be used either.

The current AP exam uses C++, a fairly recent change from Pascal.  There is
a current discussion about moving to Java.  Both Scheme and Python have been
proposed, to no effect.

Andrew Merrill
Upper School Computer Science Teacher
The Catlin Gabel School, Portland, Oregon, USA


-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Hall [mailto:overcode@lokigames.com]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:37 PM
To: plt-scheme@fast.cs.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Scheme acceptance [no flames]


Better than Visual Basic, in any case
(I've heard that they're using VB on the Advanced Placement exams, and I
feel personally insulted, having taken them in Pascal a few years ago).