IB A Level Computer Science Teaching Lesson Resources

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	IGCSE specification	A Level Document Reference	Additional content
	SL/HL core
1	System fundamentals
1.1	Systems in organizations	Cell
Cell	Planning and system installation	49. Integrated development environment
Cell	User focus	Cell	Cell
Cell	System backup	Cell	Cell
Cell	Software deployment	Cell	Cell
1.2	System design basics	Cell	Cell
Cell	Components of a computer system	22. Internet technologies 44. Moral and ethical issues	Cell
Cell	System design and analysis	11B. Structure chart 10. Software development lifecycle	Cell
Cell	Human interaction with the system	04. Input Devices 05. Output Devices	Cell
2	Computer organization	Cell	Cell
2.1	Computer organization	Cell	Cell
Cell	Computer architecture	01. Computer architecture 02. Functions and characteristics of CPU 03. Types of processor	Cell
Cell	Secondary memory	06. Data Storage	Cell
Cell	Operating systems and application systems	07. Systems software 08. Categories of software	Cell
Cell	Binary representation	28. Binary 29. Hexadecimal 31. Character sets 31A. Images	Cell
Cell	Simple logic gates	39. Logic gates and circuits	Cell
3	Networks	Cell	Cell
3.1	Networks	Cell	Cell
Cell	Network fundamentals	19. Introduction to networks 20.Network topologies 21. Network protocols and layers	Cell
Cell	Data transmission	21A. Data transmission technologies	Cell
Cell	Wireless networking	23. Network security	Cell
4	Computational thinking, problem-solving and programming	Cell	Cell
4.1	General principles	Cell	Cell
Cell	Thinking procedurally Thinking logically Thinking ahead Thinking concurrently Thinking abstractly	10. Software development lifecycle 45. Computational thinking 51. Computational methods 48A. File and exception handling 12. Procedural and object-oriented languages	Cell
4.2	Connecting computational thinking and program design	11. Introduction to algorithms 11A. Algorithm design methods 11B. Structure charts 52. Evaluation and design of algorithms 53. Searching algorithms 54. Sorting algorithms	Cell
4.3	Introduction to programming	Cell	Cell
Cell	Nature of programming languages	09. Translators	Cell
Cell	Use of programming languages	46. Introduction to programming 47. Basic programming constructs 48. Functions and procedures 32. Arrays, tuples and records	Cell
Cell	HL extension	Cell	Cell
5	Abstract data structures	Cell	Cell
5.1	Abstract data structures	Cell	Cell
Cell	Thinking recursively	Cell	Cell
Cell	Abstract data structures	34. Stacks 35. Queues	Cell
Cell	Linked lists	33. Lists and linekd lists	Cell
Cell	Trees	37. Trees 55. Algorithms for main data structures	Cell
Cell	Applications	Cell	Cell
6	Resource management	Cell	Cell
6.1	Resource management	06. Data Storage 31A. Images	Cell
Cell	System resources	07. Systems software	Cell
Cell	Role of the operating system	Cell	Cell
7	Control	Cell	Cell
7.1	Control	Cell	Cell
Cell	Centralized control systems	28A. Monitoring and control systems	Cell
Cell	Distributed systems	Cell	Cell
Cell	Options (SL/HL)	Cell	Cell
A	Databases	Cell	Cell
A.1	Basic concepts	15. Introduction to databases 17. Structured Query Language 18. Transaction processing and ACID	Cell
A.2	The relational database model	16. Relational databases 18A. Database management systems	Cell
A.3	Further aspects of database management	43. Computing related legislation	Cell
Cell	HL extension	Cell	Cell
A.4	Further database models and database analysis	Cell	Cell
B	Modelling and simulation	Cell	Cell
B.1	The basic model	Cell	Cell
B.2	Simulations	Cell	Cell
B.3	Visualizations	Cell	Cell
Cell	HL extension	Cell	Cell
B.4	Communication modelling and simulation	Cell	Cell
C	Web science	Cell	Cell
C.1	Creating the web	22. Internet technologies 24. Designing web pages using HTML and CSS 25. JavaScript 25A. Server-side scripting	Cell
C.2	Searching the web	26. Search engine indexing	Cell
C.3	Distributed approaches to the web	14. Compression, encryption and hashing	Cell
C.4	The evolving web	36. Graphs 27. Cloud computing and web applications	Cell
Cell	HL extension	Cell	Cell
C.5	Analysing the web	Cell	Cell
Cell	The intelligent web	Cell	Cell
D	Object-oriented programming	Cell	Cell
D.1 D.2 D.3	Objects as a programming concept Features of OOP Program development	50. Object oriented techniques 31. Character sets	Cell
Cell	HL extension	Cell	Cell
D.4	Advanced program development	Cell	Cell