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Brooklyn Tech's CS Track

The largest physical public high school in the country — 5,848 students. Unlike Stuyvesant's unusual Racket-first approach, Brooklyn Tech runs the standard College Board Java sequence, plus a dedicated Computer Engineering major for students who want to go deeper.

STEP 1

AP Computer Science Principles

AP Computer Science Principles (10th grade CS foundation)

Computational thinkingAlgorithms & data

The College Board's broader, more conceptual intro course — computational thinking, how the internet works, algorithms, and data, without being locked to one specific language the way AP CS A is. Required as part of Brooklyn Tech's endorsed diploma.

Signature work: creative programming projects that build toward the AP CSP performance task, emphasizing understanding computing's impact as much as writing code.

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STEP 2

AP Computer Science A

Java

The standard College Board Java course — the exact same target as Stuyvesant's AP CS A and countless other high schools nationwide, making it one of the most widely shared high school CS experiences in the country.

Signature assignment: writing, analyzing, and testing Java programs using modularity, control structures, classes, objects, arrays, and ArrayLists — College Board describes AP CSA as learning to code through analyzing, writing, and testing real code.

Start the Java cheat sheet →

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STEP 3

Computer Engineering major

Computer Engineering electives

JavaWeb toolsData/analytics toolsCybersecurity tools

Students who choose the Computer Engineering major branch into a genuinely broad set of electives: digital electronics, IT infrastructure, big data/warehousing/analytics, cybersecurity, web development with AI, and mobile app development — a wider spread than most high school CS tracks attempt.

Signature work: project-based electives across web, data, and security — this is exactly the breadth mapped out on the Career Tracks page (software developer, cybersecurity analyst, data analyst) if you want to go deeper on any one of them.

See the career tracks these lead to →