Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

You will develop an understanding of, and the ability to apply, fundamental principles and concepts of computer science. These include abstraction, decomposition, logical thinking, algorithms and data representation. You will analyse problems in computational terms through writing programmes to solve a problem. You will need the capacity to think creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically and be able to see relationships between real-life experiences and computing problem-solving. You will study a range of concepts including the structure of a computer processor, software types and development, programming languages (Python), as well as legal, moral and ethical issues. You will carry out your programming project for a real end-user and will engage with different types of thinking from computational to abstract. This course will allow you to develop: essential problem-solving and practical programming skills; personal experience of evaluating situations and making key decisions to affect outcomes; logical intelligence through data manipulation; numeracy and ICT skills; the ability to design systems and explore the limits of human; and machine intelligence.