A Level Computer Science

Course summary

No area of industry or employment can perform well without the use of computer systems. Almost every job will demand the use of computers to manage information or external events. Increasingly, those who are operating these computers are expected to have some fundamental understanding of how they work and how they can be maintained. It is therefore important to be able to develop computational thinking. The study of computation is about what can be computed and how to compute it. Computer science involves questions that have the potential to change how we view the world – for example, we may be computing with DNA at some stage in the future, with computer circuits made of genes.