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Wow, that sounds like a failure of teaching to me. The exam switched from C++ to Java in roughly 2004 and then it is discontinued in 2009? Perhaps a change to the teaching methods could have been implemented before cancellation. Although I took the case via distance learning and I'm not sure that would have had any effect for someone like me.

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I was a part of the first class that changed the AP test from C++ to Java. Our CS teacher had state winning teams for C++ and none of us passed the Java test :/ The communication and process for switching the test was handled poorly to say the least. It was pretty hard spending years looking forward to high school CS to learn C++ and then be denied that. To this day I’ve used Java for absolutely nothing but I do plenty of native compilation for JS/Python -> C/C++.

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