257 Computer Science A Level Paper-3 Topical Workbook

UNIT 1 Data Representation
13.1 User-defined data types
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13.2 File organisation and access
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13.3 Floating-point numbers, representation
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UNIT 14 Communication and Internet Technologies
14.1 Protocols
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14.2 Circuit switching, packet switching
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UNIT 15 Hardware and Virtual Machines
15.1 Processors, parallel processing and virtual machines
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15.2 Boolean algebra and logic circuits
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UNIT 16 System Software
16.1 Purposes of an operating system (OS)
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16.2 Translation software
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UNIT 17 Security
17.1 Encryption, encryption protocol and digital certificates
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UNIT 18 Artificial Intelligence
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UNIT 19 Computational Thinking and problem Solving
19.1 Algorithms
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19.2 Recursion
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UNIT 20 Further Programming
20.1 Programming paradigms
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20.2 File processing and exception handling
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