"Everybody should learn how to program a computer... because it teaches you how to think."
Steve Jobs
Specification: OCR
GCE A Level in Computer Science
Computer Science requires students to have good mathematical and problem-solving skills and will develop their computational thinking, including:
- Thinking recursively
- Thinking procedurally
- Thinking logically
- Thinking concurrently
- Thinking abstractly
Unit 1: Computing Principles
- Characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices
- Software and software development
- Data types, data structures and algorithms
- Exchanging data
- Legal, moral, ethical and cultural issues
Unit 2: Algorithms and Programming
- Elements of computational thinking
- Problem solving and programming
- Algorithms
Programming Project (Coursework)
Carried out and completed in Year 13, we work with students to select their own user-driven problem of an appropriate size and complexity to solve.
Examinations
Both exams are 2 hours long and are worth 40% of the final grade. The coursework is worth 20% of the final grade.
6th Form Teaching Staff
- Miss Harriet Page
- Mrs Cynthia Nolan
For further details, please contact Miss Page.
All plans for sixth form programmes of study at Bishop Stopford School are provisional, dependent on student numbers and government policy.