Cover
Book title
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Contents
Introduction
AS LEVEL
1 Information representation and multimedia
1.1 Data representation
1.2 Multimedia
1.3 File compression
2 Communication
2.1 Networking
2.2 The internet
3 Hardware
3.1 Computers and their components
3.2 Logic gates and logic circuits
4 Processor fundamentals
4.1 Central processing unit (CPU) architecture
4.2 Assembly language
4.3 Bit manipulation
5 System software
5.1 Operating systems
5.2 Language translators
6 Security, privacy and data integrity
6.1 Data security
6.2 Data integrity
7 Ethics and ownership
7.1 Legal, moral, ethical and cultural implications
7.2 Copyright issues
7.3 Artificial intelligence (AI)
8 Databases
8.1 Database concepts
8.2 Database management systems (DBMSs)
8.3 Data definition language (DDL) and data manipulation language (DML)
9 Algorithm design and problem solving
9.1 Computational thinking skills
9.2 Algorithms
10 Data types and structures
10.1 Data types and records
10.2 Arrays
10.3 Files
10.4 Abstract data types (ADTs)
11 Programming
11.1 Programming basics
11.2 Programming constructs
11.3 Structured programming
12 Software development
12.1 Program development lifecycle
12.2 Program design
12.3 Program testing and maintenance
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13 Data representation
13.1 User-defined data types
13.2 File organisation and access
13.3 Floating-point numbers, representation and manipulation
14 Communication and internet technologies
14.1 Protocols
14.2 Circuit switching and packet switching
15 Hardware
15.1 Processors and parallel processing
15.2 Boolean algebra and logic circuits
16 System software and virtual machines
16.1 Purposes of an operating system (OS)
16.2 Virtual machines (VMs)
16.3 Translation software
17 Security
17.1 Encryption
17.2 Quantum cryptography
17.3 Protocols
17.4 Digital signatures and digital certificates
18 Artificial intelligence (AI)
18.1 Shortest path algorithms
18.2 Artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning
19 Computational thinking and problem solving
19.1 Algorithms
19.2 Recursion
20 Further programming
20.1 Programming paradigms
20.2 File processing and exception handling
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