A Level pathways are designed to prepare you for higher education and beyond, be it a degree, research or a wide range of careers. In year one you will study the AS specification and take exams in May/June. If successful, you will progress to year two and complete the full A-level. This course will enable learners to develop a broad range of skills in the areas of programming, system development, computer architecture, data, communication and applications. Success on this course is exceptional and in the last national exams, 100% of Computer Science students passed this course.
You will need 5 GCSEs in curriculum subjects at grades 4 or above, to include maths at grade 5 or above.
You will be expected to take this subject alongside another two A Levels. Computer Science goes well with subjects such as maths, physics and business. You will also be expected to complete a work placement as part of your programme of study. Study skills and employability skills will be developed with the help of your personal tutor. Year 1 AS Specification: Key Areas AS Specification (Year 1) • Programming – imperative procedural-oriented, OOP, recursive techniques • Data structures – arrays, lists, dictionaries, hash tables, queue, graph, tree, stack, vector, fields, records, files (text & binary). • Systematic approach to problem solving – skills needed for Paper 1 and NEA (Year 2 Project) • Theory of computation – abstraction, automation, FSM with and without output, language hierarchy, complexity, Turing machines • Data representation – number systems/bases, information coding systems, encryption • Computer systems – logic gates, Boolean algebra, program translator types, classification of programming languages, system software • Computer organisation and architecture – machine code/assembly language, CPU, internal components of computer, external hardware devices (limited range) • Consequences of uses of computing – software and their algorithms embed moral & cultural values, issue of scale brings potential for great good but also ability to cause great harm, challenges facing legislators • Communication and networking – communication methods/basics, network topology, wireless, the Internet, TCP/IP, CRUD applications and REST, JSON, JavaScript Year 2 A Level Specification: • Programming – imperative procedural-oriented, OOP, recursive techniques • Data structures – arrays, lists, dictionaries, hash tables, queue, graph, tree, stack, vector, fields, records, files (text & binary) • Algorithms – traversal, search, sort, optimisation • Theory of computation – abstraction, automation, FSM with and without output, language hierarchy, complexity, Turing machines • Data representation – number systems/bases, information coding systems, encryption • Computer systems – logic gates, Boolean algebra, program translator types, classification of programming languages, system software • Computer organisation and architecture – machine code/assembly language, CPU, internal compo
About Education Provider
| Region | West Midlands |
| Local Authority | Birmingham |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Mixed |
| Address | 129 Floodgate Street, Birmingham, B5 5SU |
A Level pathways are designed to prepare you for higher education and beyond, be it a degree, research or a wide range of careers. In year one you will study the AS specification and take exams in May/June. If successful, you will progress to year two and complete the full A-level. This course will enable learners to develop a broad range of skills in the areas of programming, system development, computer architecture, data, communication and applications. Success on this course is exceptional and in the last national exams, 100% of Computer Science students passed this course.
You will need 5 GCSEs in curriculum subjects at grades 4 or above, to include maths at grade 5 or above.
You will be expected to take this subject alongside another two A Levels. Computer Science goes well with subjects such as maths, physics and business. You will also be expected to complete a work placement as part of your programme of study. Study skills and employability skills will be developed with the help of your personal tutor. Year 1 AS Specification: Key Areas AS Specification (Year 1) • Programming – imperative procedural-oriented, OOP, recursive techniques • Data structures – arrays, lists, dictionaries, hash tables, queue, graph, tree, stack, vector, fields, records, files (text & binary). • Systematic approach to problem solving – skills needed for Paper 1 and NEA (Year 2 Project) • Theory of computation – abstraction, automation, FSM with and without output, language hierarchy, complexity, Turing machines • Data representation – number systems/bases, information coding systems, encryption • Computer systems – logic gates, Boolean algebra, program translator types, classification of programming languages, system software • Computer organisation and architecture – machine code/assembly language, CPU, internal components of computer, external hardware devices (limited range) • Consequences of uses of computing – software and their algorithms embed moral & cultural values, issue of scale brings potential for great good but also ability to cause great harm, challenges facing legislators • Communication and networking – communication methods/basics, network topology, wireless, the Internet, TCP/IP, CRUD applications and REST, JSON, JavaScript Year 2 A Level Specification: • Programming – imperative procedural-oriented, OOP, recursive techniques • Data structures – arrays, lists, dictionaries, hash tables, queue, graph, tree, stack, vector, fields, records, files (text & binary) • Algorithms – traversal, search, sort, optimisation • Theory of computation – abstraction, automation, FSM with and without output, language hierarchy, complexity, Turing machines • Data representation – number systems/bases, information coding systems, encryption • Computer systems – logic gates, Boolean algebra, program translator types, classification of programming languages, system software • Computer organisation and architecture – machine code/assembly language, CPU, internal compo
