Computer Science

Course summary

Our modern world would be inconceivable without Computer Science. From Engineering to Business Management, Medicine to Biology, and language processing through to Psychology, Sociology and Archaeology – all the sciences today need computer science in some form or another. This is exactly what makes the subject so exciting and is opening up ever more employment opportunities for computer scientists. Computer Science, therefore, is a forward-looking discipline that offers excellent prospects. Computer Science at Highams Park School will enable every student to a broad technical knowledge with the ability to write their own programs and software in the Python and Visual Basic Programming Languages – some of the most popular languages used in industry today.