Theory Revision Notes

Leaving Cert Computer Science

How computers make and break the world:

1. Society: History, Impacts & Ethics

2. Turing Machines: State Diagrams & Limitaions of Computers

3. AI: Machine Learning, AGI, Models, Vision, Bias

How computers work on the inside:

4. Binary/Hex/Decimal Conversions

5. ASCII, Unicode & Emojis

6. Logic Gates & Boolean Algebra

7. Hardware: Components and CPU Internals, Von Neumann Architecture

8. Networks & Communication: Types, Protocols, TCP/IP, Cybersecurity Basics

How tech companies manage projects

9. Development: Agile vs. Waterfall, Tech Careers, DevOps

10. Design: UX/UI Design Principals, Wireframes, Assistive Tech

11. Flowcharts & Trace Tables: Tracking Program Execution

12. Evaluation & Testing: Unit, System, Black Box, Regression Testing

Datascience: How we store data and use it to predict the future:

13. Databases: Relational Databases, Primary/foreign keys, cleaning, data science, redundancy

14. Models & Simulations: Agent Based, Emergent Behavior, Regression, Decision Trees

How to think like a computer:

15. Algorithms: Algorithms: Sorting Algorithms,Time Complexity, Binary & Linear Search

16. Computaional Thinking: Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, Problem Decomposition