Yes. All 53 lessons, all practice exercises, all mastery scenarios, the built-in code editor, and the daily practice email are completely free. There is no paywall, no premium tier hiding the answers, and no per-student licensing for teachers. Optional paid products like Cram Kits and 1-on-1 tutoring exist for students who want them, but the entire curriculum works as a complete, free resource without any of them.

Yes. Every lesson uses the College Board’s 4-unit structure (Using Objects and Methods, Selection and Iteration, Class Creation, Data Collections) and references the official learning objective codes (1.1.A, 1.1.B, etc.) from the official CED, the curriculum in effect for the May 2027 AP CSA exam. The curriculum excludes the topics removed from the new CED (inheritance, polymorphism, extends, super, and interfaces) and includes the new topics: File I/O with Scanner (Topic 4.6), Data Sets (Topic 4.2), and expanded Wrapper Classes (Topic 4.7). Recursion is still tested as tracing only.

The typical self-study student takes 80-120 hours over 4-6 months working through every lesson and practice exercise. A student in a 180-day school year covers it at a slower pace with more depth and class discussion. A motivated self-study learner cramming over the summer can finish in 6-8 weeks of focused work. The full course is roughly 50,000 words of written content plus 53 practice sets, comparable to a one-semester college course.

Yes. This is a complete, year-long AP CSA curriculum aligned to the official CED, with no licensing fee, no enrollment process, and no per-student cost. Teachers can adopt it as their primary curriculum, use it as flipped-classroom material, assign individual lessons as homework or reteach, or combine it with their existing approach. The same topic numbering and learning objective codes the College Board uses are referenced throughout, so it slots into existing district scope-and-sequence documentation without rewriting. Reach out directly for an adoption walkthrough.

This curriculum is structured as 53 individual lesson pages, one per CED topic, each with practice exercises, coding work, and a mastery challenge. It is designed to be the year-long learning path. The unit study guides are long-form single-page reference documents that summarize an entire unit at once. Use the curriculum for primary learning; use the study guides for fast review and exam-week cramming. The two are designed to work together.

Skill lessons (39 of the 53) include a built-in Java code editor right in the lesson page. Students write real Java code in the browser, click Run, and get auto-graded results from hidden test cases. There is nothing to install, no separate Replit or BlueJ window, and no account required. Skill lessons typically include two to five hands-on coding exercises, with heavy-skill lessons (like writing FizzBuzz with while loops, printing a star pyramid with nested for loops, or implementing array algorithms) including more. The official AP exam is delivered through the College Board Bluebook app, which has its own embedded Java environment, so practicing in our editor builds the same write-code-and-run muscle students will use on exam day.

If you have less than 4 weeks, the lesson-by-lesson course pace will likely not finish in time. Switch to the unit study guides for fast unit-by-unit review, work the full-length practice exams, and consider the 4-Week Cram Kit or 2-Week Cram Kit for the most targeted exam-week prep. The free course is best when you have 6+ weeks of runway.

Tanner Crow, an AP Computer Science teacher at Blue Valley North High School with over 11 years of classroom experience. His students score 5s on AP CSA at 54.5% compared to the national average of 25.5%. He reads and responds to every email personally at [email protected].