# Computing - Syllabus > Source: https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/syllabus/ · Updated: 2020-09-05 · Tags: computing, syllabus, school # Computing Syllabus Link to specification: ## Entries - [ ] [Computing - Operating Systems](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/operating-systems/) - [ ] [Computing - Logic Gates](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/logic-gates/) - [ ] [Computing - Boolean Algebra](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/boolean-algebra/) - [ ] [Computing - Hardware and Software](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/hardware-software/) - [ ] [Computing - Translators and Machine Code](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/translators/) - [ ] [Computing - Libraries](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/libraries/) - [ ] [Computing - Programming Languages](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/programming-languages/) - [ ] [Computing - Little Man Computer](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/lmc/) - [ ] [Computing - Computer Organisation and Architecture](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/computer-architechture/) - [ ] [Computing - Harvard vs Von Neumann Architecture](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/havard-vs-von-neumann/) - [ ] [Computing - AQA Assembly](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/aqa-assembly/) - [ ] [Computing - Queues](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/queue/) - [ ] [Computing - Data Representation](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/data-representation/) - [ ] [Computing - Binary](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/binary/) - [ ] [Computing - The Processor](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/processor/) - [ ] [Computing - Images](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/images/) - [ ] [Computing - Sound](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/sound/) - [ ] [Computing - MIDI](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/music/) - [ ] [Computing - Compression](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/compression/) - [ ] [Computing - Encryption](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/encryption/) - [ ] [Computing - Number Systems](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/number-systems/) - [ ] [Computing - Stacks](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/stacks/) - [ ] [Computing - Hash Tables](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/hash-tables/) - [ ] [Computing - Graphs](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/graphs/) - [ ] [Computing - Trees](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/trees/) - [ ] [Computing - Vectors](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/vectors/) - [ ] [Computing - SQL](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/sql/) - [ ] [Computing - Databases](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/databases/) - [ ] [Computing - Input & Output Devices](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/input-and-output-devices/) - [1] [Computing - Storage Devices](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/storage/) - [ ] [Computing - Object Oriented Programming](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/object-oriented-programming/) - [ ] [Computing - Finite State Machines](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/finite-state-machines/) - [ ] [Computing - Sets](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/sets/) - [ ] [Computing - Regular Expressions](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/regular-expressions/) - [ ] [Computing - Regular Languages](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/regular-languages/) - [ ] [Computing - Turing Machines](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/turing-machines/) - [ ] [Computing - Reverse Polish Notation](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/reverse-polish-notation/) - [ ] [Computing - Backus-Naur Form](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/backus-naur-form/) - [ ] [Computing - Parsing](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/parsing/) - [ ] [Computing - Syntax Diagrams](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/syntax-diagrams/) - [ ] [Computing - Networking](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/networking/) - [ ] [Computing - Communication](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/communication/) - [ ] [Computing - Topologies](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/topologies/) - [ ] [Computing - WiFi](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/wifi/) - [ ] [Computing - Cloud Computing](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/cloud-computing/) - [ ] [Computing - Thick and Thin Clients](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/thick-and-thin-client/) - [ ] [Computing - Social and Legal Challenges](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/social-and-legal-challenges/) - [ ] [Computing - Structure of the Internet](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/structure-of-the-internet/) - [ ] [Computing - Network Hardware](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/network-hardware/) - [ ] [Computing - TCP/IP Stack](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/tcp-ip-stack/) - [ ] [Computing - Client & Server Model](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/client-server-model/) - [ ] [Computing - Functional Programming](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/functional-programming/) - [ ] [Computing - Big Data](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/big-data/) - [ ] [Computing - Recursion](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/recursion/) - [ ] [Computing - Searching Graphs](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/searching-graphs/) - [ ] [Computing - Limits of Computation](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/limits-of-computation/) - [ ] [Computing - Abstraction](https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/computing/topics/abstraction/) ## Syllabus * Fundamentals of Programming * Programming * Data Types * Programming Concepts * Operations * Constants and Variables * String-Handling * Random Number Generation * Exception Handling * Subroutines * Recursion * Programming Paradigms * Procedural-oriented programming * Object-oriented programming * Fundamentals of Data Structures * Data Structures and Abstract Data Types * Data Structures * Arrays * Fields, Records and Files * Abstract data types/data structures * Dictionaries * Fundamentals of Algorithms * Graph-traversal * Tree-traversal * Reverse-polish notation * Searching Algorithms * Sorting Algorithms * Optimisation Algorithms * Theory of Computation * Abstraction and Automation * Problem-solving * Following and writing algorithms * Abstraction * Information hiding * Procedural abstraction * Functional abstraction * Data abstraction * Problem abstraction * Decomposition * Composition * Automation * Regular languages * Finite state machines * Regular expressions * Regular language * Context-free languages * BNF, Syntax Diagrams * Classification of Algorithms * Big-O notation * Limits of computation * Computable and non-computable problems * Halting Problem * A Model of Computation * Turing Machines * Data representation * Number bases * Units of information * Bits and bytes * Units * Binary * Unsigned binary * Signed binary * Binary and fractions * Information coding systems * ASCII and Unicode * Error checking and correction * Sound * Midi * Images * Bit patterns * Analogue and digital * Graphics * Bitmapped graphics * Vector graphics * Compression * Encryptions * Fundamentals of computer systems * Hardware and Software * Operating Systems * Programming Languages * Translators and Machine Code * Logic Gates * Boolean Algebra * Computer Organisation and Architecture * Harvard vs Von Neumann Architecture * Internal hardware components of a computer * The stored program concept * Structure and role of the processor * External hardware devices * I/O devices * Secondary storage devices * Consequences and uses of computing * Moral, social, legal and cultural issues * Fundamentals of communication and networking * Communication * Networking * The Internet * TCP/IP Protocol * Fundamentals of databases * Data models and entity relationship modelling * Relational databases * Database design * SQL * Client server databases * Big Data * Fundamentals of functional programming * Function Type * First-class Objects * Functional application * Composition of functions * Writing functional programs * Lists in functional programming * Systematic approach to problem solving * Aspects of Software Development * Analysis * Design * Implementation * Testing * Evaluation * NEA ### Info This page was last updated on `2022-02-21`. --- Olly Britton — https://ollybritton.com. 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