Course overview - Study Period 3 and 4
During the first half term, study period 3/4, learners will complete the Fundamentals of Data Representation Unit of Work. Learners learn to experience decimal, binary and hexadecimal number bases, and gain the skills of being able to convert all bases as well as addition of binary. Units of information incorporates knowing the quantities of bytes, as well as the names and symbols. Character encoding (ASCII and Unicode), Representing Images, Representing Sound and Data Compression are also topics covered in this Unit of Work.
During the latter half of the study period 4, learners start looking at Unit 5 and experience the Fundamentals of algorithms. A more challenging unit of work that involves understanding sequences and how a computer program is an implementation of an algorithm and that an algorithm is not a computer program.
Key Concept:
Ethics, Systems, Networks
Assessment Points:
Week 19 (23rd January) - Mid-unit Summative Assessment (Data Representation)
Week 21 (9th February) - End of Unit Summative Assessment (Data Representation)
Week 24 (6th March) - Mid-Unit Summative Assessment (Fundamentals of Algorithms)
Guidance:
Learners will receive guidance in a variety of ways. These include marked assessments, reports, verbal feedback, written feedback in books, 1:1 interaction, Google Classroom and whole class feedback.
Key Vocabulary:
Binary
Denary
Data Representation
Hexadecimal
Conversion
ASCII
Unicode
Algorithm
Decomposition
Abstraction
Data
Instructions
Encode
Character Set