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Computer Science 9618›Syllabus

A Level Computer Science 9618 syllabus

Cambridge's own syllabus, section by section, with every subtopic linked to its questions.

1 · Information representation

1.1 Data Representation soon1.2 Multimedia soon1.3 Compression soon

2 · Communication

2.1 Networks including the internet soon

3 · Hardware

3.1 Computers and their components soon3.2 Logic Gates and Logic Circuits 1

4 · Processor Fundamentals

4.1 Central Processing Unit (CPU) Architecture soon4.2 Assembly Language 24.3 Bit manipulation soon

5 · System Software

5.1 Operating Systems 65.2 Language Translators 7

6 · Security, privacy and data integrity

6.1 Data Security soon6.2 Data Integrity soon

7 · Ethics and Ownership

7.1 Ethics and Ownership soon

8 · Databases

8.1 Database Concepts 18.2 Database Management Systems (DBMS) soon8.3 Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML) soon

9 · Algorithm Design and Problem-solving

9.1 Computational Thinking Skills 159.2 Algorithms 6

10 · Data Types and Structures

10.1 Data Types and Records 2510.2 Arrays 3510.3 Files 1710.4 Introduction to Abstract Data Types (ADT) 28

11 · Programming

11.1 Programming Basics 2211.2 Constructs 3411.3 Structured Programming 26

12 · Software Development

12.1 Program Development Life cycle 512.2 Program Design 1612.3 Program Testing and Maintenance 19

13 · Topic 13

13.1 User-defined data types 1413.2 File organisation and access 513.3 Floating-point numbers, representation and manipulation 9

14 · Topic 14

14.1 Protocols 614.2 Circuit switching, packet switching 8

15 · Topic 15

15.1 Processors, Parallel Processing and Virtual Machines 815.2 Boolean Algebra and Logic Circuits 13

16 · Topic 16

16.1 Purposes of an Operating System (OS) soon16.2 Translation Software soon

17 · Topic 17

17.1 Encryption, Encryption Protocols and Digital Certificates 8

18 · Topic 18

18.1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) 9

19 · Topic 19

19.1 Algorithms 4419.2 Recursion 8

20 · Topic 20

20.1 Programming Paradigms 1920.2 File Processing and Exception Handling 5