​  1. Create Performance Task: 30% of Exam Score (Submission Deadline in April)

• Create performance task is divided into the following components:
  • Program code
  • Video 
  • Student-authored Personalized Project Reference
  • 4 written response prompts related to the Create performance task on the end of course AP Exam​​

  2. AP Computer Science Principles End-of-Course: 70% of Exam Score (AP Exam in May)

• 120 minutes
• 70 multiple-choice questions
  • 57 multiple-choice single-select
  • 5 single-select with reading passage about a computing innovation
  • 8 multiple-select multiple-choice: select 2 answers ​​

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• Creative Development: When developing computing innovations, developers can use a formal, iterative design process or a less rigid process of experimentation, and will encounter phases of investigating and reflecting, designing, prototyping, and testing. Collaboration is an important tool at any phase of development.
  
• Data: Data are central to computing innovations because they communicate initial conditions to programs and represent new knowledge.
  
• Algorithms and Programming: Programmers integrate algorithms and abstraction to create programs for  creative purposes and to solve problems.
  
• Computing Systems and Networks: Computer systems and networks are used to transfer data.
  
• Impact of Computing: Computers and computing have revolutionized our lives. To use computing safely and responsibly, we need to be aware of privacy, security, and ethical issues​​.
  

  Following computational thinking practices describe what skills students should develop during the course:

• Computational Solution Design: Design and evaluate computational solutions for a purpose.
• Algorithms and Program Development: Develop and implement algorithms.
  
• Abstraction in Program Development: Develop programs that incorporate abstractions.
  
• Code Analysis: Evaluate and test algorithms and programs.
  
• Computing Innovations: Investigate computing innovations.
  
• Responsible Computing: Contribute to an inclusive, safe, collaborative, and ethical computing culture​​