Students learn about the importance of planning a programme from the beginning to prevent accidental and purposeful misuse. Learning techniques like validation and verification that help make programs more robust as they prevent incorrect data from entering the system. Also looking at the importance of testing and learning about a number of different types of testing that may need to be undertaken to ensure that programs and code is bug free:
Input Sanitisation / Validation
Authentication
Maintainability
Comments
Indentation
Testing
Iterative Testing
Final / Terminal Testing
Syntax Errors
Logic Errors
Test Data
Programming, Developers, Software Engineering, Systems analyst, Systems Security, Web development, Software Engineering, Systems Security, Testing.
Safety of personal Information. MALWARE. Awareness of how websites may include validation methods to differentiate between human and machine.
A sound understanding of computer science concepts will help students see how to get the best from the systems they use, and how to solve problems when things go wrong.
Globally careers within coding and the digital sector the fastest growing sector, predictions estimate there will be twice as many jobs than candidates to fill them in the coming years. Discussion of what can go wrong and the impact on society if programs are not tested.
In a world full of technology, every school-leaver should have an understanding of computer science and be digitally literate.
Maths: Boolean Connectors. Arithmetic operators Use of conditionals, union operators to decide on appropriate data.
