A level topics

Computer networks

• Network fundamentals
• The internet
• Network hardware
• Communication
• Web technologies

Computer systems

• Boolean logic
• Systems architecture
• Memory and storage
• Hardware
• Software
• Operating systems
• High- and low-level languages
• Translators

Cybersecurity

• Social engineering
• Malicious software
• Network security

Data and information

• Representation of numbers
• Representation of text
• Representation of images
• Representation of sound
• Compression
• Encryption
• File organisation
• Database concepts
• SQL
• Big Data

Data structures and algorithms

• Data structures
• Searching algorithms
• Sorting algorithms
• Pathfinding algorithms
• Complexity

Impacts of digital technology

• Legislation
• Impacts of technology

Maths for computer science

• Number systems and sets
• Mathematical functions

Programming fundamentals

• Programming concepts
• String handling
• Subroutines
• File handling
• Recursion
• IDEs

Programming paradigms

• Procedural programming
• Object-oriented programming
• Functional programming
• Event-driven programming

Software engineering

• Program design
• Testing
• Software engineering principles
• A level programming project / NEA

Theory of Computation

• Computational thinking
• Models of computation