AP Computer Science A - Curso de un semestre completo

This is a complete AP Computer Science A course based on the curriculum described on the College Board website at this URL:

       https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-computer-science-a-course-overview.pdf

The AP Computer Science A course teaches students computer science using the Java programming language. The course content is similar to the "Intro to CS 1" course that I have taught at Emory University which is the first course of the Computer Science curriculum at Emory. Students will learn the fundamental concepts in computer science including variables, assignment statements, conditional statements, loop statements, functions/methods, scoping rules, recursion, classes and inheritance. Students will also study the one-dimensional array, the two-dimensional array and the ArrayList data structure to organize large set of data and design solutions to problems. Homework assignments will reinforce material learned and some past AP Computer Science exam questions will be assigned as homework.

Prerequisite: there is no prerequisite for this course.

Book: the course material of this AP Computer Science A course is based mainly on the book "Introduction to Java Programming" by Daniel Liang and it is available at Amazon:

   https://www.amazon.com/Intro-Java-Programming-Comprehensive-Version/dp/0133761312/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1VA8N5V7799E1&keywords=Daniel+Liang&qid=1684942002&s=books&sprefix=daniel+liang%2Cstripbooks%2C92&sr=1-2

I made teaching slides with the book material and re-wrote some portion to make the explanation clearer and used more practical examples to illustrate the programming concepts.

Chapters of Liang's book covered this course:

1. Into to Computers and Computer Programs and intro to Java programming (my material)
2. Chapter 2: Elementary Programming
3. Chapter 3: Selections
4. Chapter 4: Mathematical Functions, Characters and Strings
5. Chapter 5: Loops
6. Chapter 6: (Static) Methods
7. Chapter 18: Recursion (I find it better to dovetail into recursion after learning methods)
8. Chapter 7: Single-Dimensional Arrays
9. Chapter 8: Multi-dimensional Arrays
10. Chapter 9: Objects and Classes
11. Chapter 11.11: The ArrayList class  (Learn to use the ArrayList objects after studying objects in general)
12. Chapter 10: Wrapper classes for primitive types
13. Chapter 11: Inheritance and Polymorphism
14. Chapter 13: Abstract classes and Interfaces

 (The "Chapters" referred to in the curriculum descriptions are book chapters in Liang's textbook)