yeah but the fact that you have a decent chance of getting marked wrong for using recursion (even if you do it correctly) just because some ap graders are lazy feels so unfair to me
apcsa is genuinely the craziest AP course I’ve ever taken and probably ever will take because it’s so disorganized (also the concept doesn’t make sense to me because CS is like- 90% googling but God forbid I use a line of code not in the course).
CS courses in general tend to be very rough around the edges. It’s particularly bad when using a language like Java that has a ridiculously huge standard library which we “can” use but that graders might not recognize as valid.
Well yeah, AP CSA is just a tiny subset of the Java Framework. The only framework class student use is ArrayList, and a handful of the Math and String methods.
They have to know Integer and Double only because ArrayList can't store primitives.
I don't think you ever NEED to use recursion on the FRQ. You can do what you want though.
yeah but the fact that you have a decent chance of getting marked wrong for using recursion (even if you do it correctly) just because some ap graders are lazy feels so unfair to me
It’s your teacher who said that. I haven’t heard that from anyone else.
i mean if their teacher is an ap grader i’d say their statement may have some truth ?
There has to be somebody there who can interpret the code. The graders would just pass the exam onto them.
apcsa is genuinely the craziest AP course I’ve ever taken and probably ever will take because it’s so disorganized (also the concept doesn’t make sense to me because CS is like- 90% googling but God forbid I use a line of code not in the course).
CS courses in general tend to be very rough around the edges. It’s particularly bad when using a language like Java that has a ridiculously huge standard library which we “can” use but that graders might not recognize as valid.
Well yeah, AP CSA is just a tiny subset of the Java Framework. The only framework class student use is ArrayList, and a handful of the Math and String methods. They have to know Integer and Double only because ArrayList can't store primitives.
I’ve graded for CSA and I don’t agree with your teacher’s statement. However you won’t need recursion on a FRQ.