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Paper 1: Computer Systems

1.1 — The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices

1.1.1

Structure and function of the processor

1.1.2

Types of processor

1.1.3

Input, output and storage

1.2 — Software and software development

1.2.1

Systems software

1.2.2

Applications generation

1.2.3

Software development

1.2.4

Types of programming language

1.3 — Exchanging data

1.3.1

Compression, encryption and hashing

1.3.2

Databases

1.3.3

Networks

1.3.4

Web technologies

1.4 — Data types, data structures and algorithms

1.4.1

Data types

1.4.2

Data structures

1.4.3

Boolean algebra

1.5 — Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues

1.5.1

Computing related legislation

1.5.2

Moral and ethical issues

Paper 2: Algorithms and Programming

2.1 — Elements of computational thinking

2.1.1

Thinking abstractly

2.1.2

Thinking ahead

2.1.3

Thinking procedurally

2.1.4

Thinking logically

2.1.5

Thinking concurrently

2.2 — Problem solving and programming

2.2.1

Programming techniques

2.2.2

Computational methods

2.3 — Algorithms

2.3.1

Algorithms