Computer Science

Assessment

Unit 1: Computer Systems- (40% - 2 ½ hours written paper) - 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 Unit 2: Algorithms and programming- (40% - 2 ½ hours written paper) -Elements of computational thinking -Problem solving and programming -Algorithms Unit 3: Programming Project- (20% - Coursework) -Analysis of the problem -Design of the solution -Developing the solution -Evaluation