The AP Computer Science A+ at TJ is too hard

[Anonymous]

Why let TJ students learn the college CS major course? The AP Computer Science A+ at TJ is too too hard. Even if a tutor who has the master degree of Virginia Technology at CS major also think this course is too hard to tutor well. This course is killing most of TJ students now. If a student can get a B score at this course, it will be best result.

[Anonymous]

AP Computer Science B- for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why let TJ students learn the college CS major course? The AP Computer Science A+ at TJ is too too hard. Even if a tutor who has the master degree of Virginia Technology at CS major also think this course is too hard to tutor well. This course is killing most of TJ students now. If a student can get a B score at this course, it will be best result.

Once more, in English.

[Anonymous]

Sorry your kid’s dumb.

[Anonymous]

TJ:s advanced CS curriculum is designed for students who would be unsatisfied by a Virgina Tech education. Only 1.5% of TJ attenda VT.

https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/senior_issue_2022_combined

DS with AP CS is not a required class for graduation.
Your child can wait until college to take it, or wait until a later year in high school.

Also, TJ is not the only high school option for your child

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why let TJ students learn the college CS major course? The AP Computer Science A+ at TJ is too too hard. Even if a tutor who has the master degree of Virginia Technology at CS major also think this course is too hard to tutor well. This course is killing most of TJ students now. If a student can get a B score at this course, it will be best result.

Literally never hear this complaint before. Wait and see what happens if your kid takes mutlivariable calc or linear algebra at TJ. Way harder at TJ than at VT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why let TJ students learn the college CS major course? The AP Computer Science A+ at TJ is too too hard. Even if a tutor who has the master degree of Virginia Technology at CS major also think this course is too hard to tutor well. This course is killing most of TJ students now. If a student can get a B score at this course, it will be best result.

Hire a TJ kid as a tutor. My DC aced AP Comp Sci and got a 5 in the AP Exam like most of her peers.

[Anonymous]

VT and TJ are not peers. TJ courses are meant to be rigorous across the board. That said, CS was the easiest class there for my the grads. Others were much more challenging. But this was before admissions changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why let TJ students learn the college CS major course? The AP Computer Science A+ at TJ is too too hard. Even if a tutor who has the master degree of Virginia Technology at CS major also think this course is too hard to tutor well. This course is killing most of TJ students now. If a student can get a B score at this course, it will be best result.

Once more, in English.

Don’t be rude, some parents have of TJ students do not speak English as their first language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why let TJ students learn the college CS major course? The AP Computer Science A+ at TJ is too too hard. Even if a tutor who has the master degree of Virginia Technology at CS major also think this course is too hard to tutor well. This course is killing most of TJ students now. If a student can get a B score at this course, it will be best result.

Literally never hear this complaint before. Wait and see what happens if your kid takes mutlivariable calc or linear algebra at TJ. Way harder at TJ than at VT.

^This. Multivariable and Linear are definitely considered harder at TJ.

Classes and their “difficulty” vary widely too based on the teachers your student is assigned. There CS teacher was harder than others (didn’t give extra credit when others did) and one linear teacher doesn’t really teach. Did like 6 problems with the class the whole quarter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why let TJ students learn the college CS major course? The AP Computer Science A+ at TJ is too too hard. Even if a tutor who has the master degree of Virginia Technology at CS major also think this course is too hard to tutor well. This course is killing most of TJ students now. If a student can get a B score at this course, it will be best result.

Literally never hear this complaint before. Wait and see what happens if your kid takes mutlivariable calc or linear algebra at TJ. Way harder at TJ than at VT.

^This. Multivariable and Linear are definitely considered harder at TJ.

Classes and their “difficulty” vary widely too based on the teachers your student is assigned. There CS teacher was harder than others (didn’t give extra credit when others did) and one linear teacher doesn’t really teach. Did like 6 problems with the class the whole quarter.

This last part is super true. Teachers make or break the classes. And it is not uncommon in math for teachers there not to actually teach.

[Anonymous]

Are TJ's AP Computer science A syllabus and other base school syllabi the same?

[Anonymous]

Guys - what makes CS hard? you dig your own hole. Every bug you debug was created by you personally. When you start a new project - the design decisions that you lack experience in making will torture you during the final days.

And off-course anything at Tech is harder than anything at TJ. The teachers at TJ don't want to give an easy A so they get creative (not harder). At Tech you put in the work and you'll likely slide out with a 3.0+.

Do you guys really think that a TJ Kid - a sophomore in HS can compete with a Tech sophomore? Nope - no way.

[Anonymous]

So you rigged the TJ admission and got your dumb kids in, and now you're complaining it's too hard? Can't have both ways!
Cry me a river

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you rigged the TJ admission and got your dumb kids in, and now you're complaining it's too hard? Can't have both ways!
Cry me a river

Some kids just aren't comp sci kids. Maybe the kids wants to go to med school or something. I am at least happy to hear this kid isn't cheating their way through CS. The cheating culture at TJ is notoriously bad. Ask any current or former TJ student.