Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

Computer Science equips you with the tools to build innovative technology, often used to solve society’s most complex and important problems in many areas such as engineering, banking, communication, and medicine. Computer Science is more than coding – it develops your technical understanding and ability to analyse and solve problems. Component 1 - The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices - Software and software development - Programming - Exchanging data - Data types, data structures and algorithms - Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues Component 2 - Elements of computational thinking - Problem solving and programming - Algorithms to solve problems and standard algorithms