A Level Computer Science Revision Notes

1.1 The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices

1.1.1 Structure and function of the processor 1.1.2 Types of processor 1.1.3 Input, output and storage

1.2 Software and software development

1.2.1 Systems Software 1.2.2 Applications Generation 1.2.3 Software Development 1.2.4 Types of Programming Language

1.3 Exchanging data

1.3.1 Compression, Encryption and Hashing 1.3.2 Databases 1.3.3 Networks 1.3.4 Web Technologies

1.4 Data types, data structures and algorithms

1.4.1 Data Types 1.4.2 Data Structures 1.4.3 Boolean Algebra

1.5 Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues

1.5.1 Computing related legislation 1.5.2 Moral and ethical ssues