1. The IT Department A Level Computer Science ‘Helping to Understand Tomorrow Today'

2. The IT Department What is Computer Science? Computer Science prepares students for a world that does not yet exist ‘Computer Science is the new Latin’ ‘It’s the closest that students get to thinking about thinking’

3. The IT Department Computer Science is shaping the world we live in Why take Computer Science? ‘By 2030 human beings will be hybrid’‘By 2030 human beings will be hybrid’ ‘By 2045 computers will be a billion times more powerful‘By 2045 computers will be a billion times more powerful than all of the human brains on Earth’ Ray Kurzweilthan all of the human brains on Earth’ Ray Kurzweil ‘Mining big data yields Alzheimer’s discovery’ Manchester University

4. The IT Department The Syllabus Topics 1 Fundamentals of programming 2 Fundamentals of data structures 3 Fundamentals of algorithms – A Level only 4 Systematic approach to problem solving 5 Theory of computation 6 Fundamentals of data representation 7 Fundamentals of computer systems 8 Fundamentals of computer organisation and architecture 9 Consequences of uses of computing 10 Fundamentals of communication and networking 11 Fundamentals of databases – A Level only 12 Big Data – A Level only 13 Fundamentals of functional programming – A Level only 14 Practical project – A Level only

5. The IT Department The Syllabus AS Assessment ExamDuration% of the ASTopics On-screen1 ½ hours50%1, 2, 4 & 5 Written1 ½ hours50%6 - 10 A Level Assessment AssessmentDuration% of A LevelTopics On-screen Exam2 ½ hours40%1, 2,3 & 5 Written Exam2 ½ hours40%6 – 13 Courseworkn/a20%4 and 14

6. The IT Department Higher Education Facebook Offices A Google sleep pod After advanced level study you will know if it’s the right choice for you Universities expect you to demonstrate your interest in the subject at interview and obviously this is easier if you have had more experience in this area It’s a great discipline and the skills are easily transferable It’s a great course Do I need to take the A level to study Computer Science at university?

7. The IT Department eLearning Each student on the course will be given a Surface Pro 4 The resources for the course will be available via a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) based on the blogging tool, WordPress Pycharm will be used to write Python code Students will learn the functional programming language Haskell

8. The IT Department A Computer Science joke Why do Computer Scientists get confused between Halloween and Christmas………? Why do Computer Scientists get confused between Halloween and Christmas………? ……….because Oct 31 and Dec 25 are both 25