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Content overview

AS Level content A Level content


1 Information representation 13 Data Representation
1.1 Data Representation 13.1 User-defined data types
1.2 Multimedia – Graphics, Sound 13.2 File organisation and access
13.3 Floating-point numbers, representation and
1.3 Compression manipulation
2 Communication 14 Communication and internet
2.1 Networks including the internet 14.1 Protocols technologies
3 Hardware 14.2 Circuit switching, packet switching
3.1 Computers and their components 15 Hardware and Virtual Machines
15.1 Processors, Parallel Processing and Virtual
3.2 Logic Gates and Logic Circuits Machines
4 Processor Fundamentals 15.2 Boolean Algebra and Logic Circuits
4.1 Central Processing Unit (CPU) Architecture 16 System Software
4.2 Assembly Language 16.1 Purposes of an Operating System (OS)
4.3 Bit manipulation 16.2 Translation Software
5 System Software 17 Security
17.1 Encryption, Encryption Protocols and Digital
5.1 Operating Systems certificates
5.2 Language Translators 18 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
6 Security, privacy and data integrity 18.1 Artificial Intelligence
6.1 Data Security 19 Computational thinking and Problem-solving
6.2 Data Integrity 19.1 Algorithms
7 Ethics and Ownership 7.1 Ethics and Ownership 19.2 Recursion
8 Databases 20 Further Programming
8.1 Database Concepts 20.1 Programming Paradigms
8.2 Database Management Systems (DBMS) 20.2 File Processing and Exception Handling
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

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