Computer Science

Course summary

Computer Science is forever advancing as everyone uses computers and technology systems increasingly, impacting our working lives and leisure time. Computer scientists discover innovative ways of providing technological solutions to wide ranging problems and bringing them into reality. Subject content includes: The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices. Types of software and the different methodologies used to develop software. Data exchange between different systems. Data types, data structures and algorithms. What is meant by computational thinking (thinking abstractly, thinking ahead, thinking procedurally etc.) Problems solving and programming - how computers and programs can be used to solve problems. Algorithms and how they can be used to describe and solve problems. Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues.