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		temugen on Nov 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Help me convince a teacher we should learn... Definitely. .NET is .NET and especially being imperative, VB is mostly just syntactic differences over C#. But neither of those languages are tested on the AP exam ;)

barrydahlberg on Nov 9, 2010 [–]

What is an AP exam? I'm from New Zealand so I'm guessing it's something we don't have.

barrydahlberg on Nov 9, 2010 | | [–]

Ah, thanks for the link. We don't have anything by that name but I did something equivalent that was specific to my university anyway.

endtime on Nov 9, 2010 | | [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement

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