Computing

The course exposes students to the possibilities and implications of technology now in the Information Age and into their future lives. Students will use a range of current and creative software tools to generate Computing solutions to real world problems.

Computing subjects in Y10, Y11 and Y12 DO NOT require any prerequisites. This means you can pick it up at any year level without any computing experience. If you do decide to pick up Computing in Year 11 or Year 12, you should seek advice.

Some key ideas for you:

Not so long ago (in historic terms) there were NO websites! The first website was created at Cern in Switzerland. You can see what it looked like here - http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Now there are over a billion websites and you are living in the Information Age.

Facebook was created in 2004. It now has approximately 1.6 billion daily active users. China - the most populous country with 1.36 billion people are actually banned from Facebook. Think about the content shared on Facebook every minute. 

Think about who owns this content and who can share it and how safe it is.

Over 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few.

To put the data explosion in context, consider this. Every minute of every day we create:

- More than 150 million email messages

- Over 2 million Google search queries

-  48 hours of new YouTube videos are posted

- More than 300,000 tweets

- 38 000 instagram posts

- nearly a million tinder swipes

What happens with all this data?