The article mentions an "AP Computer Science" curriculum that it claims does not cover programming and is not actually APCS, but is instead AP Computer Science Principles, an "intro to computers" for less stem-oriented students that was introduced last year. The actual APCS curriculum mostly involves learning basic programming constructs and some Java APIs, and is done solely in Java.

Also, there used to be AP Computer Science B covering basic algorithms and data structures, but CollegeBoard killed it because barely anyone took it.