4248's Notebook

14 Oct 20242 min read

Computer Science topics

Here is a list of every topic that is covered on the A Level Computer Science. When you click a page you will be able to see the notes I have made for that topic.

1 - Components of a computer

  1. Processor Components
  2. Processor Performance
  3. Types of Processor
  4. Input Devices
  5. Output Devices
  6. Storage Devices

2 - Systems software

  1. Functions of an Operating System
  2. Types of Operating System
  3. The Nature of Applications
  4. Programming Language Translators

3 - Software development

  1. Systems Analysis Methods
  2. Writing and Following Algorithms
  3. Programming Paradigms
  4. Assembly Language

4 - Exchanging data

  1. Compression, Encryption and Hashing
  2. Database Concepts
  3. Relational Databases and Normalisation
  4. Introduction to SQL
  5. Defining and Updating Tables using SQL
  6. Transaction Processing

5 - Networks and web technologies

  1. Structure of the Internet
  2. Internet Communication
  3. Network Security and Threats
  4. HTML and CSS
  5. Webforms and Javascript
  6. Search Engine Indexing
  7. Client Server and Peer-Peer

6 - Data types

  1. Primitive Data Types, Binary and Hex
  2. ASCII and Unicode
  3. Binary Arithmetic
  4. Floating Point Arithmetic
  5. Bitwise Manipulation and Masks

7 - Data Structures

  1. Arrays, Tuples and Records
  2. Queues and data types
  3. Lists and Linked Lists
  4. Stacks
  5. Hash Tables
  6. Graphs
  7. Trees

8 - Boolean algebra

  1. Logic Gates and Truth Tables
  2. Simplifying Boolean Expressions
  3. Karnaugh Maps
  4. Adders and D-type flip flops

9 - Legal, moral, ethical and cultural issues

  1. Computing Related Legislation
  2. Ethical, Moral and Cultural Issues
  3. Privacy and Censorship

10 - Computational thinking

  1. Thinking Abstractly
  2. Thinking Ahead
  3. Thinking Procedurally
  4. Thinking Logically, Thinking Cocurrently
  5. Problem Recognition
  6. Problem Solving

11 - Programming techniques

  1. Programming Basics
  2. Selection and Programming Constructs
  3. Iteration
  4. Subroutines and Recursion
  5. Use of IDE
  6. Use of object-oriented Techniques

12 - Algorithms

  1. Analysis and Design of Algorithms
  2. Searching Algorithms
  3. Bubble Sort and Insertion Sort
  4. Merge sort and Quick Sort
  5. Graph Traversal Algorithms
  6. Optimisation Algorithms

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