Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

Computer systems: • Processors, input, output and storage devices • Software development • Data exchange, data types and structures • Legal, moral, cultural and ethicall issues Algorithms and programming: • Algorithms • Computational thinking • Problem solving Programming project (non-exam assessment) Students will be expected to analyse a problem, design, develop, test, evaluate and document a program. The program must solve the problem and should be written in a suitable programming language.