Cambridge International AS & A Level Computer Science Coursebook: Hodder Education

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



A LEVEL


	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



Glossary

Index