AQA GCSE Computer Science

✍ Scribed by George Rouse, Lorne Pearcey, Gavin Craddock

• Publisher: Hodder Education
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Updated specification; first teaching September 2020.
Specification code: 8525

Written by leading Computer Science teachers, this textbook will guide students through the updated AQA GCSE Computer Science specification topic by topic, and provide them with standalone recap and review sections, practice questions, worked examples and clear explanations of complex topics.

This textbook:
>> Prepares students for assessment with numerous practice questions for all topics
>> Develops computational thinking skills
>> Provides differentiated material with the 'beyond the spec' feature
>> Includes standalone recap and review sections at the end of each chapter
>> Provides definitions of technical terms, along with a glossary of words to ensure students feel confident with the assessment.

Authors
George Rouse, Lorne Pearcey and Gavin Craddock are highly respected and widely published authors of resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
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1 FUNDAMENTALS OF ALGORITHMS
1.1 Representing algorithms
1.2 Efficiency of simple algorithms
1.3 Sorting and searching algorithms
2 PROGRAMMING
2.1 Data types
2.2 Programming concepts
2.3 Arithmetic operations
2.4 Relational operations
2.5 Boolean operations
2.6 Data structures
2.7 Input and output
2.8 String-handling operations
2.9 Random number generation
2.10 Structured programming and subroutines
2.11 Robust and secure programming
3 FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA REPRESENTATION
3.1 Number bases
3.2 Converting between number bases
3.3 Units of information
3.4 Binary arithmetic
3.5 Character encoding
3.6 Representing images
3.7 Representing sound
3.8 Data compression
4 COMPUTER SYSTEMS
4.1 Hardware and software
4.2 Boolean logic
4.3 Software classification
4.4 Classification of programming languages and translators
4.5 Systems architecture
5 FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER NETWORKS
5.1 Computer networks
6 CYBER SECURITY
6.1 Fundamentals of cyber security
6.2 Cyber security threats
6.3 Methods to detect and prevent cyber security threats
7 RELATIONAL DATABASES AND STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE (SQL)
7.1 Relational databases
7.2 Structured Query Language (SQL)
8 ETHICAL, LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ON WIDER SOCIETY
8.1 Ethical, legal and environmental impacts and risks of digital technology
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KNOWLEDGE CHECK ANSWERS
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INDEX
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS