AS/A Level Computing topical notes

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Paper 1

Introductory Computer Systems, Communications and Software

1.1.   Components of a Computer System and Modes of Use
1.2.   Systems Software

1.3.   Data: Its Representation, Structure, and Management
1.4.   Hardware

1.5.   Data Transmission and Networking 

1.6.   Systems Development Life Cycle 

1.7.   Choosing Appropriate Applications Software 

1.8.   Handling of Data in Information Systems

1.9.   Designing the User Interface 

1.10. Logic Gates

Paper 2

Practical Programming Techniques

2.1   Designing solutions to problems 

2.2   The structure of procedural programs 

2.3   Data types and data structures 

2.4   Common facilities of procedural languages 

2.5   Writing maintainable programs 

2.6   Testing and running a solution 

Paper 3

Systems Software, Mechanisms, Machine Architecture, Database theory, Programming Paradigms and Integrated Information Systems

3.1.   The functions of operating systems

3.2.   The Functions and Purposes of Translators  
3.3.   Computer Architecture and the Fetch- Execute Cycle  
3.4.   Data Representation, Structures, and Manipulation  
3.5.   Programming Paradigms
3.6.   Databases
3.7.   Simulation and Real Time Processing
3.8.   Networking