AP Computer Science: Principles

AP Computer Science: Principles is a college-level course that covers a variety of computing topics through concepts, and teaches procedural programming. The exam consists of 70 multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes and a Create performance task. The Create performance task will also include 2 questions on the exam that are written response questions in 60 minutes. The project can be on anything and in any of the approved programming languages. In 2024 the past score distributions were a 64% pass rate with 10.9% of students earning a 5.

Make Rain Using simplegui

Here is an example of an in-class project that creates text on the screen and makes it fall continuously. This was created on CodeSkulptor3 in python and importing simplegui and random modules. The link to try out the code is here.