How Khan Academy content relates to UTeach AP CSP curriculum

The Khan Academy content is designed as a supplementary resource for all AP CSP classrooms. There are many endorsed CSP curricula, and each of them teach the topics in a different order.

UTeach is a curriculum that uses both SCRATCH and Python to teach programming and explore the many topics.

This diagram gives a high level overview of how the UTeach units relate to the Khan Academy units:

This table provides a more detailed breakdown:

UTeach	Related content on Khan Academy
Unit 1: Computational thinking	See below:
Algorithmic thinking	Article: The building blocks of algorithms, Exercise: The building blocks of algorithms
Encryption	Article: The need for encryption, Article: Encryption, decryption, and cracking, Article: Symmetric encryption techniques
Programming languages	None
Pseudocode	Article: Expressing an algorithm, Exercise: Expressing an algorithm
Decidability and Performance	Lesson: Solving hard problems, Lesson: Evaluating algorithms
Algorithmic Bias	Lesson: Bias in machine learning
Unit 2: Programming	See below:
The Who, What, and Why of Programming	Lesson: What is programming?
Visual Programming	None
Let's Get Animated	None
Program State	Lesson: Variables, Lesson: Math, Lesson: Simulating randomness
Selection Statements	Lesson: Boolean logic
Iteration	Lesson: Repetition
Procedures	Lesson: Procedures
Unit 3: Data representation	See below:
Binary Encoding of Information	Bits and bytes, Binary numbers
Common Encoding Standards	Lesson: Limitations of storing numbers, Lesson: Storing text in binary
Digitization	Some overlap with our lesson on analog data, but the later topic on audio manipulation is more closely related.
Legality of Reselling Digital Music	Article: Copyright, DRM, and the DMCA
Lists	Lesson: Lists
Unit 4: Digital Media Processing	See below:
Introduction to Python	Lesson: What is programming?, Lesson: Variables
Control Structures	Lesson: Boolean logic, Lesson: Repetition, Lesson: Strings
Data Abstraction	Lesson: Lists
Procedural Abstraction	Lesson: Procedures
RGB Color	(Non-AP) Lesson: Hexadecimal numbers
Image Manipulation	None
Encoding Schemes	None
Audio Manipulation	Lesson: Converting analog data to digital
Audio Compression	Lesson: Lossless data compression, Lesson: Lossy data compression
Original or Manipulated	Article: Creative Commons and open source, Exercise: Digital copyrights and licenses
Unit 5: Big Data	See below:
Data Science	Article: The era of big data
Data Aggregation	Article: Sources of big data
Privacy vs. Utility	Lesson: User data tracking
Data Analysis	Lesson: Data tools
Big Data Reflection	Lesson: Crowdsourcing innovations, Unit: Simulations
Unit 6: Innovative Technologies	See below:
Computing Innovations	Lesson: PII
Impact of Computing	Lesson: Communication innovations, Lesson: Collaboration innovations, Lesson: The digital divide
The Internet	Lesson: Introducing the Internet, Lesson: Connecting networks, Lesson: Addressing the Internet, Lesson: Routing with redundancy, Lesson: Transporting packets, Lesson: Scalable systems, Lesson: Open protocol development
Interconnectedness in Computing	Lesson: Web protocols, Lesson: The Internet protocol suite, Lesson: Monitoring innovations
Sequential, Distributed and Parallel Computing	Lesson: Parallel and distributed computing
Cybersecurity	Article: Public key encryption, Exercise: Data encryption techniques, Lesson: Secure Internet protocols, Lesson: User authentication methods, Lesson: Cyber attacks
Unit A1: Artificial Intelligence: Turing Test	None

Since the UTeach curriculum introduces programming concepts twice (first in SCRATCH and then in Python), it may be best to wait until students are learning the concepts in Python before practicing them on Khan Academy.

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