Computer Science

Course summary

Paper 1 Fundamentals of programming Fundamentals of data structures Fundamentals of algorithms Theory of computation Students answer a series of short questions and write/adapt/extend programs in an Electronic Answer Document provided by the exam board. They are issued with Preliminary Material, a Skeleton Program (in Python) and, where appropriate, test data, for use in the exam. Paper 2 Fundamentals of data representation Fundamentals of computer systems Fundamentals of computer organisation and architecture Consequences of uses of computing Fundamentals of communication and networking Fundamentals of databases Big Data Fundamentals of functional programming Systematic approach to problem solving Students answer a series of short-answer and extended-answer questions.