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[Wonopon]

Hello, I received my SHSAT results on friday, and I have been accepted into BTHS :) I decided that I will go to BTHS. I know this is a bit early, but I have a question about the Computer Science major. Will C or C++ be taught in Computer Science? Thanks.

[Mushrooms]

Welcome to tech wonopon!
http://www.bths.edu/majors.jsp
here you can check out the different majors in tech, and if you go the computer science section, youll see the classes that will be in that major

[Ilya R.]

Wonopon, on 12 February 2011 - 07:15 PM, said:

Hello, I received my SHSAT results on friday, and I have been accepted into BTHS :) I decided that I will go to BTHS. I know this is a bit early, but I have a question about the Computer Science major. Will C or C++ be taught in Computer Science? Thanks.

C used to be in the curriculum, but it was replaced by Java. But who knows, it might change again by the time you get to junior year. Also I saw something about the Computer Science major being replaced with a Software Engineering major? Don't quote me on that xD

[R. Asher]

Comp Sci is being revised to focus on "Software Engineering" and programming as a thematic structure. Student who want programming will be immersed and those that don't should look for a different major. This decision was made by the comp sci faculty and adminsitration in response to feedback from many of the upper level students in the program.

[Ilya R.]

R. Asher, on 25 February 2011 - 07:13 PM, said:

Comp Sci is being revised to focus on "Software Engineering" and programming as a thematic structure. Student who want programming will be immersed and those that don't should look for a different major. This decision was made by the comp sci faculty and adminsitration in response to feedback from many of the upper level students in the program.

Sounds good actually.
Are current comp sci Juniors still gonna have DE and JavaScript and all that good stuff next year?

[R. Asher]

I believe so - the comp sci faculty mapped out the transition for the current junior class though to be honest I don't remember the details.

[Alanmp08]

I see the classes for Comp Sci got changed. I think Comp Sci sounds better than Soft Eng. But besides that, I wonder how many people will apply. There's always people who aims for a major like Comp Sci or Media hoping for an easy grade or being on the computers (Facebook, Proxies, the usual). I hope that people decide to stick to their aims and not the false rumors about Media being an easy grade and so on.

Programming for Android OS? Oh yes. ^.^ We should cooperate with Google. perhaps potential apps can be submitted to Google and maybe we can score a deal with them. i doubt it, but who knows.

What room is Comp Sci in? I'll check it out tomorrow.

[Ilya R.]

R. Asher, on 26 February 2011 - 09:05 AM, said:

I believe so - the comp sci faculty mapped out the transition for the current junior class though to be honest I don't remember the details.

Please tell me Android dev is in the transition.

[Alanmp08]

Ilya R., on 02 March 2011 - 06:13 PM, said:

Please tell me Android dev is in the transition.

It says so in the major page: "Programming for the Android OS."

Edited: It's in Senior year.

[teknite]

AP Computer Science introduces object oriented programming using Java.