Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

COURSE CONTENT: Computer systems • 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 Algorithms and Programming • Elements of computational thinking • Problem-solving and Programming • Algorithms to solve problems and standard algorithms Programming project The learner will choose a computing problem to work through according to the guidance in the specification. • Analysis of the problem • Design of the solution • Developing the solution • Evaluation