This best-selling review manual has been thoroughly updated to reflect the College Board's elimination of the Level AB course and the updated Level A syllabus. The new edition presents three full-length AP practice exams for the Level A course. The first exam is a diagnostic test and contains charts detailing the topics for each question. All three model tests have questions answered and explained. Test takers will also find an extensive subject review including new sections on static variables, the List interface, Integer.MAX_VALUE, and Integer.MIN_VALUE. A section on two-dimensional arrays is included for the Level A exam. The enclosed CD-ROM contains two additional full-length model AP exams for Level A. These tests are presented with answers, explanations, automatic scoring for the multiple-choice questions, and a scoring chart.
This book is an excellent review of programming in Java for all people that need a refresher. The reader is tested in all areas of programming, starting with the basic operations and data types and moving through the principles of object-oriented programming and peaking with coverage of arrays and basic sorting algorithms. The examples and test questions challenge the reader, teachers of Java at all levels from high school through college will find many ideas for test problems in this book. There are a total of four practice tests in the book and the associated CD ROM.
It had its problems and places where it could have been more clear, but this book saved my butt on the AP exam. I would have been far worse off if I hadn't used this book to review.