Computer Studies / Computing

Course summary

The Computer Science specification is designed to provide the knowledge and skills suitable for participation in a rapidly evolving computer-dependent society. You will gain an understanding and ability to apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms, and data representation. You will also learn the ability to analyse problems in computational terms through practical experience of solving such problems, including writing programs to do so. You will cover contemporary systems’ architecture; software and software development; exchanging data; data types; representation and structures; and legal, moral and ethical issues. Alongside this, you will be taught how to program using an object-orientated programming language. You will learn the theory behind programming, looking at computational thinking, problem-solving and algorithms. The coursework brings together all the programming skills learnt, developing a problem to a solution. The system analysis and design aspects of this coursework, together with the necessary time-management, are highly transferable skills that are a real benefit to studying A level Computer Science.