Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

What saddens me the most is to see those kids who grew up with a smartphone in their hand trying to convert a picture by renaming it. It is a problematic form of computer illiteracy.

> What saddens me the most is to see those kids who grew up with a smartphone in their hand trying to convert a picture by renaming it

Why shouldn't that work? I think it would be pretty great if changing the file extension popped up a helper that asked me if I wanted to convert from HEIC to JPG?

Really, no-one should have to think about file formats when they're trying to do something that has nothing intrinsically to do with file formats.

Seems more like a failure of software engineering, to me.

Maybe for common formats, but that assumes the file was correctly named to start with. It also assumes there's a trivial or reasonable conversion between formats. What happens if I rename a CAD file to MP3?

The failure of engineering was clearly with the test authors - they should have been validating their inputs.