Ou-An Chuang (2018)
(10 NOV 2021)
Please note the content of this course detailed on this site is OUTDATED and uses the AS Computer Science syllabus (9608) from 2018.
If you spot any errors or encounter any issues, please contact the author (Ou-An Chuang - oachuang@gmail.com).
However, please keep in mind that all content on this site was based on the author's understanding in 2018 and may not accurately reflect the syllabus content.
Number representation
Images
Sound
Video
Compression techniques
Networks
IP addressing
Client- and server-side scripting
Input, output and storage devices
Main memory
Logic gates and logic circuits
CPU architecture
The fetch-execute cycle
The processor's instruction set
Assembly language
Operating system
Utility programs
Library programs
Language translators
Data security
Data integrity
Ethics
Ownership
Database Management Systems (DBMS)
Relational database modelling
Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML)
Advantages and disadvantages of ASCII and Unicode
Interlaced and progressive encoding (video)
Fetch-execute cycle