About This Course
A full year of computer science that starts from nothing. You will write Lua, draw and animate with LÖVE, build the Create Performance Task you submit to the College Board, and prepare for the AP exam. No prior programming experience is assumed.
Most of what you write this year puts something on a screen. You open a window in the second session and keep drawing from there — shapes, motion, collisions, and eventually a game you design yourself. The rest of the time you work in text, where text is genuinely the point.
Course Content
Quarter 1: Creative Development, and the Language
Setting Up Your WorkspaceActivity 1.1: Welcome to AP CSPActivity 1.2: Your First WindowActivity 1.3: Naming Your NumbersActivity 1.4: Asking a QuestionActivity 1.5: Doing the MathActivity 1.6: Ask, Compute, AnswerSection Summary: Getting StartedReviewActivity 1.7: Making It MoveActivity 1.8: True or FalseActivity 1.9: Deciding at the EdgesActivity 1.10: More Than Two ChoicesActivity 1.11: Asking Two Things at OnceActivity 1.12: The CrossingActivity 1.13: Taking ControlActivity 1.14: Touching, and RememberingSection Summary: Motion and DecisionsReviewActivity 1.15: Doing It AgainActivity 1.16: Counting LoopsActivity 1.17: Loops Inside LoopsActivity 1.18: Tables as ListsActivity 1.19: How Long, and What Is Not ThereActivity 1.20: Going Through a TableSection Summary: Loops and TablesReviewActivity 1.21: Making Your Own BoxActivity 1.22: Handing an Answer BackActivity 1.23: The Fleet, and Who Calls WhatSection Summary: FunctionsReviewActivity 1.24: Creative Artifact — The PlanActivity 1.25: Creative Artifact — BuildActivity 1.26: Quarter 1 ExamOptional, and worth extra credit. Nothing later depends on them. The badge is the last activity you need to have finished — anything at or below where you are now is fair game.