Computer Science

Course summary

Studying Computer Science at A Level will open up a broad range of opportunities. You’ll develop transferable skills, including problem-solving and critical thinking. If you choose to continue your studies, you will find that programming, IT and computer science jobs are lucrative and rewarding. Topics: 1: The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices 2: Software and software development 3: Exchanging data 4: Data types, data structures and algorithms 5: Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues 6: Elements of computational thinking 7: Problem solving and programming 8: Algorithms to solve problems and standard algorithms