WHY STUDY COMPUTER SCIENCE? The A level Computer Science at Aylward Academy will allow students to apply the academic principles learned in the classroom to real-world systems. It is an intensely creative subject that combines invention and excitement and looks at the natural world through a digital prism. Studying A Level Computer Science at Aylward Academy will allow you to have an understanding of and ability to apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science through abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms and data representation. It further gives you the ability to analyse problems in computational terms through practical experience of solving such problems including writing programs to do so. If you have the capacity for thinking creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically and the capacity to see relationships between different aspects of computer science and the ability to articulate the individual, social , legal and cultural opportunities and risks of digital technology then this course is for you! WHAT’S COVERED? As part of the course you will have to complete two theory components which are externally assessed, one on computer systems and the other on algorithms and programming. The third component is a programming project which is internally assessed. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES Students who have passed Computer Science have gone on to study a wide array of courses at top universities including Computing, Games Technology and Applications Development, Creative Computing and Web Technologies, Data Science, Networking, Cyber Security, Social Engineering and other related courses. During the course you will develop skills that would benefit you in a career as programmer, data analyst and data administrator, network designer and network administrator, web technologist, game developer, cyber security manager among others. COMBINES WELL WITH A-Levels such as Mathematics, all Sciences and all Social Sciences WIDER CURRICULUM OPPORTUNITIES As part of the course, you will visit major technology firms and start-ups and have the possibility to use a real-life setting for your programming project.