A Level - Computer Science

Back

Course Summary

Subject: Computing

Course Title: A Level - Computer Science

Course Types: Sixth Form

Course Level: A-Level

Course Description

Are you looking for a challenge? We aim to stretch you and challenge your intellect by taking real-world problem solving, looking at situations and working out how to make computer programs to simulate them or solve problems for them. Computer technology is part of just about everything that touches our lives from the cars we drive, to the movies we watch, to the ways businesses and governments deal with us.

Computer science requires and develops capabilities in solving deep, multidimensional problems requiring imagination and sensitivity to a variety of concerns.

The majority of our students go on to university and around 70% follow computer related courses, such as computer science, artificial intelligence, games design, games programming, software engineering, systems analysis, informatics, or joint courses such as business management with computing or IT.

From Engineering to Business Management, Medicine to Biology, and Language Processing through to Psychology, Sociology and Archaeology – all the sciences today need computer science in some form or another. This is exactly what makes the subject so exciting and is opening up ever more employment opportunities for computer scientists.

Areas of Study

• Fundamentals of programming • Fundamentals of data structures • Systematic approach to problem solving • Theory of computation • Fundamentals of data representation • Fundamentals of computer systems • Fundamentals of computer organisation and architecture • Consequences of uses of computing • Fundamentals of communication and networking • Fundamentals of algorithms • Fundamentals of databases • Big Data • Fundamentals of functional programming • Systematic approach to problem solving