Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

The course has 3 components: • Computer Systems: software and its development; types of programming language; data types, representation and structure; exchanging data and web technologies; following algorithms; using Boolean Algebra; legal, moral and ethical issues. • Algorithms & Programming: elements of computational thinking; programming & problem solving; pattern recognition, abstraction and decomposition; algorithm design and efficiency; standard algorithms. • Programming project: a user driven programming solution for a third party involving problem analysis, design of the solution, implementation, testing and evaluation of the final product.