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AQA GCSE Computer Science revision
Revise Computational Thinking & Programming Skills and Computing Concepts with narrated lessons, self-marking quizzes and activities, written to the AQA specification by an experienced teacher and textbook author.
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Paper 2
AQA GCSE Computer Science papers
Lessons follow the AQA specification topic by topic, each with a quiz, and the first lessons of each paper are free to try.
Externally assessed
Paper 1: Computational Thinking & Programming Skills revision
Algorithms, searching and sorting, and programming: data types, variables, selection, iteration, subroutines and arrays, plus reading, writing and tracing programs.
What it covers
- Topic Area 3.1a Fundamentals of algorithms
- Topic Area 3.2 Programming
- Topic Area 3.1b Searching & sorting algorithms
Topics
- Representing Algorithms Free
- Programming Concepts & Data Types
- Sequence, Selection & Iteration
- String Manipulation
- Data Structures
- Structured Programming & Subroutines
- Robust & Secure Programming
- Searching & Sorting Algorithms
Externally assessed
Paper 2: Computing Concepts revision
Data representation, computer systems, networks, cyber security, relational databases and SQL, and the ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology.
What it covers
- Topic Area 3.3 Fundamentals of data representation
- Topic Area 3.4 Computer systems
- Topic Area 3.5 Fundamentals of computer networks
- Topic Area 3.6 Cyber security
- Topic Area 3.7 Relational databases & SQL
- Topic Area 3.8 Ethical, legal & environmental impacts
Topics
- Number Bases & Units Free
- Binary Arithmetic
- Data Representation
- Data Compression
- Boolean Logic
- Software Classification
- Classification of Programming Languages & Translators
- Systems Architecture
- Memory & Storage
- Fundamentals of Computer Networks
- Network Protocols & Security
- Cyber Security
- Relational Databases & SQL
- Ethical, Legal & Environmental Impacts
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Lessons that read to you
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Quizzes that mark themselves
A quiz after every lesson, marked instantly, so you can see straight away what needs another look.
Practice that sticks
Short, regular quizzes and activities spread over time help knowledge move into long-term memory, ready for the exam.
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