Unit 8 · AI & the Impact of Computing · Lessons 8.12–8.13 · Practice PT
Practice PT #2: Build Days
Two days. Your teacher circulates asking one question, over and over: which requirement does this code satisfy? Have the answer ready for every block you write.
Big Idea 5 — Impact of ComputingPractice PT #2 · Lessons 8.12–8.13
Everything on this page is AP-TESTABLE Create PT practice.
Verify against the current CED before you rely on this. The Create PT’s requirements
and written-response format have changed before. The CED in effect for 2026–27 is the Fall 2023 version; your
teacher checks the College Board’s current student handout and scoring guidelines before this week.
Day 1 (8.12) — working program
Build the list and the procedure first. Test the procedure with two or three calls whose answers you worked out by hand. Then the rest.
Day 2 (8.13) — finish and capture the PPR
Stop adding features by the middle of the period. Capture your Personalized Project Reference and check it against the list in section 4.
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Try It — Which Requirement Is This?
Each snippet satisfies one requirement most directly. Name it the way you’ll name it in your written responses.
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The PPR Checklist
Capturing the PPR is a mechanical skill students still get wrong on the second try. Check each item against
the current student handout:
The procedure is shown in full: its header with the parameter, and the selection and iteration inside it.
A call to that procedure is shown, in a separate capture.
The list is shown being created or having data stored in it.
The list is shown being used to do something in the program.
No comments in the captured code, and nothing that identifies you — check the handout for the current rules on both.
Every capture is readable at normal size: no tiny fonts, no cut-off lines.
The common miss: capturing the procedure but cutting off its last lines, or capturing a
call that doesn’t pass an argument for the parameter. Look at each capture as a stranger would.
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Connections
Came from 8.11 — your approved pitch. Build exactly that.
Came from 3.22 — the first build days. Two days now, not three.
Next in 8.14 — timed written responses about this program.