Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

Computer Science is a practical subject where students can apply the academic principles learned in the classroom to real-world systems. It’s an intensely creative subject that combines invention and excitement, and can look at the natural world through a digital prism. Course content: ▪ The characteristics of contemporary processors input, output and storage devices ▪ Software and software development ▪ Exchanging data ▪ Data types, data structures and algorithms ▪ Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues ▪ Elements of computational thinking ▪ Problem solving and programming ▪ Algorithms to solve problems and standard algorithms