This course covers the topics found in the OCR A Level Computer Science syllabus but is not endorsed by OCR. Please refer to the exam board specification to ensure that the full range of topics has been covered.
Please click on the links below to access the topic pages.
Topics included at A Level only (not AS) are indicated by a *.
Procedural Languages
Assembley (Direct, Indirect, Indexed)
Object Oriented
Symmetric & asymmetric encryption
Different uses of hashing
Records, lists, tuples
Linked Lists
Stacks
Queues
Tree (Binary Tree)
Hash Table
Tree Traversal
Karnaugh Maps for simplification
Laws of simplification:
- De Morgan’s
- Distribution
- Association
- Commutation
- Double negation
Logic Gate Diagrams
Logic Associated with D type flip flops, half and full adders 🙁
- Computers in the workforce
- Automated decision making
- AI
- Environmental
- Censorship
- Monitor Behaviour
- Analyse personal information
- Piracy
- Layout, colour paradigms, and character sets