Computer Science

Course summary

What will I study The A-level in Computer Science will encourage students to develop an understanding of, and the ability to apply, the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms and data representation. Year 1 • Fundamentals of programming • Fundamentals of data structures • Fundamentals of algorithms • Theory of computation • Fundamentals of data representation • Fundamentals of computer systems • Fundamentals of computer organisation and architecture • Consequences of uses of computing • Fundamentals of communication and networking Year 2 • Fundamentals of databases • Big Data • Fundamentals of functional programming • Systematic approach to problem solving • Non-exam assessment – the computing practicalproject