AP Computer Science A

Advanced Placement Computer Science A focusing on Java programming and object-oriented design.

Practical Applications

Managing School Records

Organizing Data with Java

Schools have lots of data—students, grades, classes. Java makes it easy to organize and search this information.

What to Include

  • Store student names, IDs, and grades.
  • Add or remove students.
  • Calculate average grades.

Example Structure

class Student {
  String name;
  int id;
  double grade;
}

Use an ArrayList<Student> to manage all students.

Why It Matters

This is how real school systems, libraries, and companies manage their data every day!

Examples

  • Using an ArrayList to keep track of all enrolled students.

  • Calculating class averages from student grade data.