Computing Handbook

Mr Lawrence Wasukira

Mr Bhabuu Rajalingam

2 hours

The KS3 Computing Programme follows the Compute-IT course, which provides a sound basis for the development of computational skills. Students are taught to design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems. They are also taught to use two or more programming languages, at least one of which is textual, to solve a variety of computational problems; make appropriate use of data structures [for example, lists, tables or arrays]; design and develop modular programs that use procedures or functions.

• Under the hood of a computer
• Think like a computer scientist
• Drawing and manipulating shapes
• Creating an animation
• Foundations of computing
• How the Web works
• Web page creation
• Designing for HCI: a hand-held digital device
• Designing for HCI: an operating system interface
• Representing images
• Programming a calculator
• Programming a quiz

•  Operating systems
•  CMD: The command line
• Binary
• Instruction set design
• Programming using selection statements and Boolean expressions
• Connecting to the internet
•  Sorting
•  How to make a computer appear smart
•  Recursive patterns

• Cracking the code: binary characters, cyphers and encryption
• Representing sounds
• Simple database tables
• Searching
• Getting down and dirty with networks
• Client-side and server-side scripting
• Digital circuits
• Computer architecture
• Creating an app to solve a problem