Computer Science

Course summary

Paper 1 – 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 Paper 2 – Algorithms and Programming • Elements of computational thinking • Problem solving and programming • Algorithms to solve problems and standard algorithms 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