"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. " 

 BILL GATES, Programmers at Work

Steve Jobs: “Everybody should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think"

Topics: Term 2

Unit 2: Data transmission 

1- Types and methods of data transmission

2- Methods of error detection

3- Encryption

Unit 7: Algorithm design and problem-solving

1- Understanding the program development life cycle limited to:

• Analysis

• design

• coding

• testing

2- a -Understand that every computer system is made up of sub-systems, which are made up

         of further sub-systems 

   b- Understand how a problem can be decomposed into its component parts

   c- Use different methods to design and construct a solution to a problem 

Unit 8: Programming

1-   Declare and use variables and constants

2-   Understand and use the basic data types

3-   Understand and use input and output

       4- (a) Understand and use the concept of sequence

             (b) Understand and use the concept of selection

             (c) Understand and use the concept of iteration

            (d) Understand and use the concepts of totalling

                   and counting

            (e) Understand and use the concept of string

                  handling

ASSESSMENT: TBC