A-Level Computer Science above all else, is relevant to the modern and changing world of computing and technology. It aims to ensure that a student will develop the ability to analyse, critically evaluate and make decisions. They will develop an understanding of, and the ability to apply, the fundamental principles and concepts of Computer Science including: abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms and data representation. This course will allow a student to analyse problems in computational terms through practical experience and develop their capacity to think creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically. The modules that a student will study are: Module 1 Computer Systems - This module will introduce a student to the internal workings of the Central Processing Unit, the exchange of data and will also look at software development, data types and legal and ethical issues. It is expected that a student will draw on this underpinning content when studying computational thinking, developing programming techniques and devising their own programming approach in their Programming project module. Module 2 Algorithms and Programming - This module will incorporate and build on the knowledge and understanding gained in the Computer Systems module. In addition, a student should: understand what is meant by computational thinking; understand the benefits of applying computational thinking to solving a wide variety of problems; understand the principles of solving problems by computational methods; be able to use algorithms to describe problems and be able to analyse a problem by identifying its component parts. NEA Programming Project (coursework) - A student will be expected to analyse, design, develop, test, evaluate and document a program written in a suitableprogramming language. The underlying approach to the project is to apply the principles of computational thinking to apractical coding problem. A student will be expected to apply appropriate principles from an agile development approachto the project development. While the project assessmentcriteria are organised into specific categories, it is anticipated the final report will document the agile development process and elements for each of the assessment categories will appear throughout the report.