The Princeton Review - Cracking the AP Computer Science A Exam, 2020 Edition: Practice Tests & Prep for the NEW 2020 Exam

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Contents

Alignment with units established in the revised College Board Course Description effective fall 2019 shown above each chapter.

Unit 1: Primitive Types (2.55% Exam Weighting)

Unit 3: Boolean Expressions and if Statements (1517.5% Exam Weighting) and

Unit 4: Iteration (17.522.5% Exam Weighting)

Unit 2: Using Objects (57.5% Exam Weighting) and

Unit 5: Writing Classes (57.5% Exam Weighting)

Unit 6: Array (1015% Exam Weighting)

Unit 7: ArrayList (2.57.5% Exam Weighting)

Unit 8: 2D Array (7.510% Exam Weighting)

Unit 9: Inheritance (510% Exam Weighting)

Unit 10: Recursion (57.5% Exam Weighting)

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