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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