Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

Component 1: Computer Systems The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output, and storage devices, Software and software development, Programming, Exchanging data, Data types, data structures and algorithms, and Legal, moral, ethical, and cultural issues. Component 2: Algorithms and Problem-Solving Elements of computational thinking (thinking abstractly, thinking logically, thinking procedurally, thinking concurrently), problem-solving and programming, algorithms, programming techniques, and computational methods. Component 3: Programming Project A practical portfolio-based assessment with a task that is chosen by the teacher or learner and is produced in an appropriate programming language of the learner’s or teacher’s choice. The course allows progression to both higher education and employment.