OCR A Level Computing Teaching Resource & Revision Material

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	OCR specification	A Level Document Reference	Additional content
1.1	The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices
1.1.1	Structure and function of the processor	1. Computer architecture 2. Functions and characteristics of CPU
1.1.2	Types of processor	3. Types of processor	Cell
1.1.3	Input, output and storage	4. Input devices 5. Output devices 6. Data storage	Cell
1.2	Software and software development	Cell	Cell
1.2.1	Systems software	7. Systems Software	Cell
1.2.2	Applications Generation	8. Categories of software 9. Translators	Cell
1.2.3	Software development	10. Software Development life cycle 11. Introduction to algorithms	Cell
1.2.4	Types of programming language	12. Procedural and object oriented languages 13. Assembly languages	Cell
1.3	Exchanging data	Cell	Cell
1.3.1	Compression, Encryption and Hashing	14. Compression, Encryption and Hashing	Cell
1.3.2	Databases	15. Introduction to databases 16. Relational databases 17. Structured query language 18. Transaction processing and ACID	Cell
1.3.3	Networks	19. Introduction to computer networks 20. Network topologies 21. Network protocols and layers 22. Internet technologies 23. Network security 27. Cloud computing and web applications	Cell
1.3.4	Web technologies	24. Designing web pages using HTML and CSS 25. JavaScript 26. Search engine indexing 27. Cloud computing and web applications	Cell
1.4	Data types, data structures and algorithms	Cell	Cell
1.4.1	Data types	28. Binary 29. Hexadecimal 30. Floating point numbers 31. Character sets	Cell
1.4.2	Data structures	32. Arrays, tuples and records 33. Lists and linked lists 34. Stacks 35. Queues 36. Graphs 37. Trees 38. Hash table	Cell
1.4.3	Boolean algebra	39. Logic gates and circuits 40. de Morgan's laws 41. Karnaugh maps 42. Adders and flip-flops	Cell
1.5	Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues	Cell	Cell
1.5.1	Computing related legislation	43. Computing related legislation	Cell
1.5.2	Moral and ethical Issues	44. Moral and ethical Issues	Cell
2.1	Elements of computational thinking	Cell	Cell
2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 2.1.5	Thinking abstractly Thinking ahead Thinking procedurally Thinking logically Thinking concurrently	45. Computational thinking	Cell
2.2	Problem solving and programming	Cell	Cell
2.2.1	Programming techniques	46. Introduction to programming 47. Basic programming constructs 48. Functions and procedures 49. Integrated development environment 50. Object oriented techniques	Cell
2.2.2	Computational methods	51. Computational methods	Cell
2.3	Algorithms	Cell	Cell
2.3.1	Algorithms	52. Evaluation and design of algorithms 53. Searching algorithms 54. Sorting algorithms 55. Algorithms for main data structures 56. Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm and A* algorithm	Cell