Well, my predictions for the 2015 AP CS A Free Response were close this year as usual.
There was a matrix question again this year. It was pretty simple and was not a matrix of references this year. This question had part a, b, and c with b and calling a and c calling b.
There were 2 class creation questions again this year. I guess you can say that is a trend.
One was a string question just involving simple class creation. The other was writing and implementing an interface.
There was an ArrayList of classes again. The sparse array was a cool way of creating a matrix. It seemed much like an old AB question as we used maps to to make grids back in the day.
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I have posted slides with my solutions and a java student project that has shells and no solutions. This project will allow students to punch in their code and see if works.
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There are review slides for the AP Computer Science A exam for years 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. There are student java projects in place now for many of the AP Computer Science Free Response sections.
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