GCSE Computer Science

Topic 2 - Algorithms and programming constructs

What you need to know:

Self Documenting Identifiers, Scope, Iteration, Selection, Rogue Values, Variable, Parameter. (see doc below)

How to answer fill the gaps or list the output questions. Writing algorithms.

BBC Four - The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms, What are algorithms?Marcus du Sautoy lifts the veil on the mysterious world of algorithms.

BBC Four - The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms, How does Google work?How Google's PageRank algorithm can be used to rank players in a football team.

How algorithms run Amazon’s warehousesWhen you click “buy’ on Amazon, a flurry of activity begins inside a nearby warehouse – all managed by smart computer code. What’s it like to work there?

Bubble Sort & Merge Sort

BBC Four - The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms, Battle of the algorithmsBoth algorithms put things in order – but they do it by different means.

OOP KO.pdf

ANSWERS - Algorithm Questions Revision Sheet

Algorithm Revision Questions

Algorithms What is & Constructs KO.pdf

KeyTerms & Variables Static Dynamic KO.pdf

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