Video Transcript: Introducing AP Computer Science Principles

I see computer science everywhere.
Smart medicine that can monitor your body.
National security issues.
Sonar technology to view to the inside of your body.
It's saving lives, it's helping people.
Computers have transformed everything we do.
Computer Science Principles is a broad introduction to computer science.
It's not about syntax, it's about creativity.
They can read and understand how the Internet functions.
By the time the course is over, they'll have several apps that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for their learning.
I asked my student to look at the world and to think about things that are in their world in terms of data.
They can actually understand how instructions are given to the computer.
We went from talking about how the Internet travels and how computers started to where the first computer bug came from.
An actual bug.
I have people from the basketball team, football team, people in interior design, theater, tech people, somebody who takes
my class, they're in the band, they wanna learn about music, I'll teach it to 'em on a program that has to do with music.
I felt like I was in the studio, just makin' a hit for everyone.
This is what I've been waiting for forever, just showin' your flavor, just showin' everything through code is just amazing.
Being able to press, you know, Enter, or Run, and see my world pop up.
It's just like painting or drawing.
That cursor is your paintbrush.
A lot of girls are intimidated because they see computers as like a guy thing.
If more girls were like encouraged, then that wouldn't be an issue anymore.
You don't even think you're creative, and then you have a course that makes you see yourself as creative.
It kind of feels like a new light has turned on.
Computer science, I feel like has really helped me with my confidence.
The biggest change I see in students is their confidence.
This class teaches kids how to think.
Computer science can empower.
Computer science is a source of making that can lead to that power.
My friend and I, we just look at each other like, oh my God, we finally got the code!
We have breakthroughs, we make discoveries.
Wow, a bunch of ones and zeros did that!
Coming into that class, I've seen I can design my own thing.
It's such a powerful thing.
Awesome.