Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

We all use computers every day. In all likelihood, you have one in your pocket right now! There are limits to what a computer can do, but these are pushed every year by pupils like you. The Computer Science course focuses on the skills pupils need to progress to higher education or thrive in the workplace. It is not just about programming, although that is a major component. The emphasis is also on computational thinking – a kind of reasoning used by both humans and machines. Thinking computationally is an important life skill and means using abstraction and decomposition.