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As many of you know, the College Board
has recently decided to go to C++ as the language on the AP exam
sometime in the next few years.

If you would like to express your opinion on this matter, here is
some pertinent information, forwarded to me by James McKim.


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On April 11, Owen Astrachan posted:

    Owen> If you're interested in sending a reasonable, well-thought out
    Owen> letter to the College Board concerning the change in language used on
    Owen> the advanced placement exam (from Pascal to C++), here's the address:

    Owen> The College Board
    Owen> attn: AP Computer Science
    Owen> 45 Columbus Avenue,
    Owen> New York, NY 10023

It might be better to send these letters to actual people.  The head
of the College Board AP program is Wade Curry

    Wade Curry
    The College Board
    45 Columbus Avenue
    New York, N.Y. 10023-6992

    212 713-8000

The members of the computer science AP committee (at least as of a
couple of months ago) are:


Susan Horwitz, chair AP CS Committee
University of Wisconsin - Madison
horwitz@cs.wisc.edu

Kenneth Appel, member AP CS Committee
Yorktown High School
appel@nes.nersc.gov

Theresa Cuprak, member CS AP Committee
Carl Hayden High School
Tcuprak@aol.com

David Kay, member AP CS Committee
University of California - Irvine
kay@ics.uci.edu

Christopher Nevison, member CS AP Committee
Colgate University


Leon Schram, member AP CS Committee
Berkner High School

Mark Stehlik, Chief Faculty Consultant AP CS
Carnegie Mellon University
mjs@cs.cmu.edu

Owen Astrachan, Faculty Consultant AP CS
Duke University
ola@duke.cs.duke.edu



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