A Level Computer Science for AQA by Kevin Bond

A Level Computer Science for AQA by Kevin Bond

This textbook covers sections 4.1 to 4.4 of AQA's A Level Computer Science specification for first teaching from September 2015. These sections cover the fundamentals of programming, data structures, algorithms, and the theory of computation.

Fundamentals of programming: data types, programming concepts, arithmetic operations, relational operators, Boolean operations, constants and varibale, string-handling, random number generatio, exception handling, subroutines, parameters of subroutines, returning a value/values from a subroutine, local variables, global variables, role of stack frames in subroutine calls, recursive techniques, procedural-oriented programming, object-oriented programming.

Fundamentals of data structures: data structures, single- and multi-dimensional arrays, fileds, records and files, abstract data types, queues, stacks, graphs, trees, hash tables, dictionaries, vectors.

Fundamentals of algorithms: graph traversal (breadth-first, depth-first), tree-traversal (pre-order, in-order, post-order), Reverse Polish, searching algorithms (linear search, binary search, binary tree search), sorting algorithms(bubble sort, merge sort), optimisation algorithms (Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm).

Theory of computation: abstraction and automation, following and writing algorithms, information hiding, procedural abstraction, functional abstraction, data abstraction, problem abstraction/reduction, decomposition, composition, automation, regular languages, finitest state machine with and without output, maths for regular expressions, regular expressions, regular language, context-free languages (BNF, syntax diagrams), classification of algorithms, maths for understanding Big-O notation, order of complexity, limits of computation, classification of algortihmic problems, computatble and non-computatable problems, halting problem, Turing machine.

Bond, Kevin Roy: - Kevin Bond has many years of A Level Computing/Computer Science teaching and examining experience. He has worked at the interface between Science, Computer Science and Engineering, first as a Research Scientist, then as a Senior Development Engineer for a major Defence Contractor and then as a Senior Systems Analysis for a major Telecommunications company. He holds a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics.

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ISBN 13	9780992753627
ISBN 10	0992753627
Title	A Level Computer Science for AQA
Author	Kevin Bond
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Educational Computing Services Ltd
Year published	2015-07-31
Number of pages	628
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