CS Revision Pages

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• Component 01
  1. The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices
     1. Structure and function of the processor
     2. Types of processor
     3. Input, output and storage
  2. Software and software development
     1. Systems Software
     2. Applications Generation
     3. Software Development
     4. Types of Programming Language
  3. Exchanging data
     1. Compression, Encryption, and Hashing
     2. Databases
     3. Networks
     4. Web Technologies
  4. Data types, data structures and algorithms
     1. Data Types
     2. Data Structures
     3. Boolean Algebra
  5. Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues
     1. Computing related legislation
     2. Moral and ethical Issues
• Component 02
  1. Elements of computational thinking
     1. Thinking abstractly
     2. Thinking ahead
     3. Thinking procedurally
     4. Thinking logically
     5. Thinking concurrently
  2. Problem solving and programming
     1. Programming techniques
     2. Computational methods
  3. Algorithms
     1. Data structures and related algorithms
     2. Sorting algorithms
     3. Searching algorithms
     4. Path finding algorithms