Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

The next twenty years will be exciting times for Computer Science as it develops at an amazing rate. It is hard to believe that a tablet has more processing power than the flight computer on the space shuttle. The challenge is to respond to this ever-changing world and develop the knowledge and skills that will help us understand technology that hasn’t yet been invented. Computer Science is about gaining the essential thinking skills needed to succeed in our digital, connected society. We will teach you to think computationally about problems and issues and give opportunities to apply this thinking to wider problems in broader contexts. Computer Science is a creative and practical subject where you can apply the academic principles learned in the classroom to understanding and developing real-world systems. Computer Science helps you to develop the skills to solve problems, design systems and understand the power and limits of human and machine intelligence. This course is ideal for students who want to go on to study Computer Science at a higher level There are also a number of other courses such as engineering, medicine and architecture that may contain Computer Science modules. This A level also provides a good grounding for subject areas that require computational thinking and analytical skills. You will gain valuable employability skills as the number of people working as technical specialists is forecast to increase and there are now very few jobs that do not involve the use of computers.