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Male:	There's a movement across the country to try to bring computing to everybody. It's the digital literacy of the 21st century.

Female:	Whether it's medicine, religion, mathematics, physics, engineering, students are finding that what they learn in a Computer Science Principles course is gonna serve them well, no matter what they go on to do.

Male:	We encourage high schools to offer it. Schools that teach an equivalent, as we do at Duke, are gonna easily give credit for it. It's a rigorous, engaging course.

Female:	We actually talk about strategies for problem solving. Plan, implement, and test. And these are necessary in every area of your life, wherever you're going to work.

Male:	I challenge the students with some exercises to think about how they can use technology to help solve a social issue.

Male:	The problems that we give in AP Computer Science Principles and the problems that are part of the assessment really lend themselves to an open-ended and creative problem solving way of thinking. Computer Science Principles is special that way.

Female:	My school now looks at it as a great recruitment tool. Every student should have access to this course. I can't see any other course that does it better.

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