Computer Science

Course summary

Studying A Level Computer Science will enable you to engage in a practical course of study where you can apply academic principles to real world computer systems in an inventive and creative format. The course aims to help you develop an understanding and ability to apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including: abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms and data representation. You will develop the ability to analyse problems in computational terms through practical experience of solving such problems including writing programs to achieve these goals. The course emphasises the importance of problem-solving using computers, computer programming and algorithms, mathematical skills used to express computational laws and processes such as Boolean algebra/logic and a comparison of the complexity of algorithms.