2025-26 Syllabus

CSA
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I am starting to get emails from AP about re-uploading a syllabus for the changes to CS A next year. I have not found one yet on code.org’s website. Change the date on the URL did not help either. Does anyone know if this is out yet? Thanks in advance!

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On the College Board forums, one provider said they submitted their curriculum but it’s taking the college board some time to go through and approve it all, and I imagine code.org is in the queue as well. So we’ll have to wait for official approval for them first.
I plan on not even bothering with the new changes until after the AP Exams.

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@jeff.rhodes Jeff, thanks for posting your question. I am sure there are other users that are wondering the same thing. I will reach out to the curriculum team and get an update on when the new course outline might be available.
My AP Administrator wanted all AP teachers to complete their audit sooner than later. I ended using the Sample Syllabus provided by the College Board.

Sylvia

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Thanks for bringing this up-- I just went to the college board site, and while you can start submitting course audits now, the ‘preferred deadline’ is in October 2025, with the final deadline in January 2026, for the 25-26 school year.
In the past, Code.org has tried to keep changes from going live until after the current AP exam, to avoid confusion with which year is which- we will probably see the new syllabus and more info about the updated course after the CSA exam in May 2025.

You can see the college board info at this link:

Best,
Lindsay

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Hi Lindsay,

I want to thank the entire code.org team for creating the AP CSA curriculum and the online IDE.

The current curriculum in Unit 1 starts out with the Painter class (similar to Karel The Robot) which is a fantastic pedogical tool for teaching Objects and Inheritance.

With AP CSA removing Inheritance, how will you redesign the Unit 1 and Unit 2 lessons which extensively use the extends keyword?

A few suggestions:

  • While I see the version feature, can you let us know when a student does a copy/paste? This could help detect plagiarism from AI LLM’s like ChatGPT.
  • Could the IDE support Junit? so teachers can write their own test cases and challenges for students to do?

Thanks!

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