Computing Syllabus

Link to specification: https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/computing/specifications/AQA-7516-7517-SP-2015.PDF

Entries

• [[Computing - Operating Systems]]^A
• [[Computing - Logic Gates]]^A
• [[Computing - Boolean Algebra]]^A
• [[Computing - Hardware and Software]]^A
• [[Computing - Translators and Machine Code]]^A
• [[Computing - Libraries]]^A
• [[Computing - Programming Languages]]^A
• [[Computing - Little Man Computer]]^A
• [[Computing - Computer Organisation and Architecture]]^A
• [[Computing - Harvard vs Von Neumann Architecture]]^A
• [[Computing - AQA Assembly]]^A
• [[Computing - Queues]]^A
• [[Computing - Data Representation]]^A
• [[Computing - Binary]]^A
• [[Computing - The Processor]]^A
• [[Computing - Images]]^A
• [[Computing - Sound]]^A
• [[Computing - MIDI]]^A
• [[Computing - Compression]]^A
• [[Computing - Encryption]]^A
• [[Computing - Number Systems]]^A
• [[Computing - Stacks]]^A
• [[Computing - Hash Tables]]^A
• [[Computing - Graphs]]^A
• [[Computing - Trees]]^A
• [[Computing - Vectors]]^A
• [[Computing - SQL]]^A
• [[Computing - Databases]]^A
• [[Computing - Input & Output Devices]]^A
• [1] [[Computing - Storage Devices]]^A
• [[Computing - Object Oriented Programming]]^A
• [[Computing - Finite State Machines]]^A
• [[Computing - Sets]]^A
• [[Computing - Regular Expressions]]^A
• [[Computing - Regular Languages]]^A
• [[Computing - Turing Machines]]^A
• [[Computing - Reverse Polish Notation]]^A
• [[Computing - Backus-Naur Form]]^A
• [[Computing - Parsing]]^A
• [[Computing - Syntax Diagrams]]^A
• [[Computing - Networking]]^A
• [[Computing - Communication]]^A
• [[Computing - Topologies]]^A
• [[Computing - WiFi]]^A
• [[Computing - Cloud Computing]]^A
• [[Computing - Thick and Thin Clients]]^A
• [[Computing - Social and Legal Challenges]]^A
• [[Computing - Structure of the Internet]]^A
• [[Computing - Network Hardware]]^A
• [[Computing - TCP & IP Stack]]^A
• [[Computing - Client & Server Model]]^A
• [[Computing - Functional Programming]]^A
• [[Computing - Big Data]]^A
• [[Computing - Recursion]]^A
• [[Computing - Searching Graphs]]^A
• [[Computing - Limits of Computation]]^A
• [[Computing - Abstraction]]^A

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

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