Content overview
AS Level content
1 Information representation
1.1 Data Representation
1.2 Multimedia – Graphics, Sound
1.3 Compression
2 Communication
2.1 Networks including the internet
3 Hardware
3.1 Computers and their components
3.2 Logic Gates and Logic Circuits
4 Processor Fundamentals
4.1 Central Processing Unit (CPU) Architecture
4.2 Assembly Language
4.3 Bit manipulation
5 System Software
5.1 Operating Systems
5.2 Language Translators
6 Security, privacy and data integrity
6.1 Data Security
6.2 Data Integrity
7 Ethics and Ownership
7.1 Ethics and Ownership
8 Databases
8.1 Database Concepts
8.2 Database Management Systems (DBMS)
8.3 Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data
Manipulation Language (DML)
9 Algorithm Design and Problem-solving
9.1 Computational Thinking Skills
9.2 Algorithms
10 Data Types and Structures
10.1 Data Types and Records
10.2 Arrays
10.3 Files
10.4 Introduction to Abstract Data Types (ADT)
11 Programming
11.1 Programming Basics
11.2 Constructs
11.3 Structured Programming
12 Software Development
12.1 Program Development Life cycle
12.2 Program Design
12.3 Program Testing and Maintenance
A Level content
13 Data Representation
13.1 User-defined data types
13.2 File organisation and access
13.3 Floating-point numbers, representation and
manipulation
14 Communication and internet
14.1 Protocols technologies
14.2 Circuit switching, packet switching
15 Hardware and Virtual Machines
15.1 Processors, Parallel Processing and Virtual Machines
15.2 Boolean Algebra and Logic Circuits
16 System Software
16.1 Purposes of an Operating System (OS)
16.2 Translation Software
17 Security
17.1 Encryption, Encryption Protocols and Digital certificates
18 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
18.1 Artificial Intelligence
19 Computational thinking
19.1 Algorithms Problem-solving
19.2 Recursion
20 Further Programming
20.1 Programming Paradigms
20.2 File Processing and Exception Handling
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