AP Computer Science Principles

CSP is the broad, conceptual course. It covers five Big Ideas, Creative Development, Data, Algorithms and Programming, Computer Systems and Networks, and Impact of Computing, and it is language-flexible, so students may work in a block-based or a text-based language. AP Computer Science A, by contrast, is a single-language course taught entirely in Java, with no data, internet, or impact content. Many students take CSP first, since it needs no prior coding background and gives an honest sense of whether programming and computing are worth going deeper into with AP Computer Science A afterward.

No. The course is built to be beginner-friendly from the first class, and CSP itself is designed for students with no programming background. We teach the concepts, variables, lists, procedures, selection, and iteration, from scratch, alongside the College Board's own pseudocode conventions used in most exam questions. Some prior exposure to any language, block-based or text-based, helps you move faster, but nothing is assumed.

The Create Performance Task is an individually developed program you build over at least nine hours of guided development time, using at least one list, a procedure that takes parameters, and an algorithm that manages complexity with selection or iteration. You submit your code as a Personalized Project Reference PDF through the AP Digital Portfolio, with a deadline that falls near the end of April on a typical school-year calendar. What changed starting with the 2024-25 exam is how this is scored: the Create Task is no longer graded as a standalone submitted artifact by AP readers. Instead, on the end-of-course exam itself, you answer two written-response questions about your own program, using your Personalized Project Reference as permitted reference material. This written-response section is Section II of the exam and is worth thirty percent of your score. We build and finish your Create Task across guided sessions in month 4, then drill exactly this written-response format against your own finished code in month 6.

CSP is intentionally language-flexible: the College Board allows both block-based and text-based languages for the Create Task, and does not test any one language's exact syntax on the multiple-choice exam. We teach with a beginner-friendly, text-based language for building real programs, including your Create Task, and we also teach fluent reading of the College Board's own pseudocode, since that is the notation most multiple-choice questions are actually written in. The point of the course is the underlying concept, a loop, a list, a procedure with parameters, which transfers to any language you use later, including Java if you go on to AP Computer Science A.

The exam has two sections, taken digitally. Section I is multiple choice: seventy questions in one hundred twenty minutes, worth seventy percent of the score. Of those seventy, fifty-seven are single-select questions, eight are multiple-select questions where you must choose exactly two correct answers, and five are based on a short reading passage. Section II is the written-response section: two questions about your own Create Task program, answered using your Personalized Project Reference, worth thirty percent of the score. We run full timed practice on both sections, including complete mock exams under digital conditions.

No honest course can promise a specific score. AP exams are graded 1 to 5, and your result depends on your starting point, the hours you put into practice, and your performance on the day. What we can promise is honest: live teaching to the current two-part exam, a real, individually developed Create Task built with instructor feedback, full multiple-choice and written-response practice, and complete timed mock exams, plus a clear, evidence-based read on a realistic target for you. Whether a given score earns college credit is decided by each university individually, not by us or by the College Board, so check the specific policy of the colleges you care about.

Yes, it is built for a school student's week: two live one-hour classes plus three to four hours of practice you can place where it fits, with evening and weekend class slots. The pace stays steady rather than crushing, and WhatsApp doubt support means a problem that stalls you on a school night does not have to wait for the next class. Students who miss a session can usually attend the same class with another batch where scheduling allows, so a busy exam week does not leave a real gap.

₹1,499 per month for group classes with 2 live classes weekly and at most 10 students per batch. Mini batches of 3 to 4 students are ₹2,499 per month, and personal 1-on-1 classes are ₹4,999 per month. International students pay $40 per month for group classes and $100 per month for 1-on-1. The first demo class is free, so you can see the teaching before deciding: book at learn.modernagecoders.com/contact or on WhatsApp at +91 91233 66161.

No. Modern Age Coders is an independent education provider and is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by the College Board. AP and Advanced Placement are registered trademarks of the College Board, used here only to describe the exam this course prepares students for. For official course and exam information, students should always refer to the College Board and AP Central directly.