Computer Science A-Level

Course summary

Computer Systems (Component 01) • The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices • Software and software development • Exchanging data • Data types, data structures and algorithms • Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues Algorithms and programming (Component 02) • Elements of computational thinking • Problem solving and programming • Algorithms to solve problems and standard algorithms Programming Project (Component 03) The learner will choose a computing problem to work through according to the guidance in the specification. • Analysis of the problem • Design of the solution • Developing the solution • Evaluation