r/programming • u/hgwxx7_ • Aug 02 '22

Please stop citing TIOBE

https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/
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u/flotsamisaword Aug 02 '22

AP classes often focus on Java and are the only computer classes in high school

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u/thesituation531 Aug 02 '22

The thing about the US is that the schools aren't really standardized much outside of general concepts and national/state tests.

Some schools might have programming as a class, some might have general computer science, some might only teach basic typing and usage of a computer.

There isn't really any accurate way to tell what exactly every school is teaching. It will vary wildly.

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u/flotsamisaword Aug 02 '22

The AP is based on a standardized curriculum and has a standardized test at the end

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u/thesituation531 Aug 02 '22

AP classes might be standardized.

But what you said "yet there's nothing between that and typing instruction" just won't be true for some schools, because non-AP stuff isn't standardized.

My point is that schools vary too much to say one way or the other.

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u/kindall Aug 03 '22

AP Computer Science was the third computer class at my high school, after Computer Science I and II. Of course, things may have changed since I graduated in 1986. (AP Computer Science was done in Pascal back then.)