Subject: Computer Science

Examination Board: OCR H446

Non-Exam Assessment/Coursework: 20%

Examination: 80% (2 x 40%)

Specific entry requirements: A grade 7 in GCSE Computer Science, and a grade 7 in GCSE Mathematics.

What will you study?

In Year 12…..

• Binary addition and subtraction with floating point numbers, sign and magnitude, two’s complement and normalisation

• Object oriented programming

• Recursion

• Data structures: stacks, queues, graphs, trees, linked lists and multi dimensional arrays

• Boolean algebra, K-maps, laws, flip flops and adders

• Computer legislation

• Moral, ethical and legal issues

• Software development

• Introduction to coursework

In Year 13…..

• Object oriented programming

• Structure and function of the processor, including different types (CISC, RISC)

• Systems software (memory management, interrupts, scheduling)

• Applications and compilation

• Programming languages

• Compression, encryption and hashing

• Databases (SQL, normalisation)

• Networks (and the TCP/IP stack)

• Web technologies (HTML, CSS and the page rank algorithm)

• Binary search trees and traversal algorithms

What Super Curricular opportunities are there linked to this subject?

EdX CS50 - Introduction to Computer Science

Online course run by HarvardX based on the course taught at Harvard University.

What can this course lead to?

Careers in Computer Science, Mathematics, Sciences & Engineering.