Computer Science
A Level Computer Science
Exam Board : OCR Specification
Assessment: External Examination, comprising of two exam papers the Computer Systems – Paper 1(40%) and Algorithms and Programming Paper 2(40%). In addition pupils must complete an NEA Programming Project (20%) to solve a problem chosen by the student in a high level programming language.
Course Content:
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Year and Term |
Algorithms and Programming (Paper 2) |
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Programming |
Theory Topics |
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Year 12 |
Autumn 1 |
Programming Techniques (GCSE Recap, GUI Skills using GUI Zero/Tkinter (Python) or VS 2019 in C# |
Programming Techniques Recursion/Pass by ref and value |
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Autumn 2 |
OOP Programming (on-going) |
Algorithms/Comp Methods |
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Spring 1 |
Read, trace and write code to implement algorithms |
Algorithms/Data Structures |
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Spring 2 |
Read, trace and write code to implement data structures |
Data Structures |
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Summer 1 |
Web Technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) |
Thinking Concurrently, abstractly, logically etc |
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Summer 2 |
Programming Project (Analysis) |
Complexity Big O Notation |
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Year and Term |
Computer Systems (Paper 1) and Programming Project |
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Year 13 |
Autumn 1 |
Programming Project (Design) on-going OOP practice |
1.1. The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices |
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Autumn 2 |
Programming Project (Development) and OOP |
1.2. Software and software development |
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Spring 1 |
Programming Project (Development/Testing) and OOP |
1.3. Exchanging data |
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Spring 2 |
Programming Project (Evaluation) and OOP |
1.4. Data types, data structures and algorithms |
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Summer 1 |
Revision |
1.5 Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues |
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