Computer Science

Course aims

Computer Science is a practical subject where students can apply the academic principles learned in the classroom to real-world systems. It’s an intensely creative subject that combines invention and excitement, and can look at the natural world through a digital prism.
  • An understanding and ability to apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including: abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms and data representation
  • The ability to analyse problems in computational terms through practical experience of solving such problems, including writing programs to do so
  • The capacity to think creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically
  •  The capacity to see relationships between different aspects of computer science
  • Mathematical skills

Entry requirements

Grade 6 in GCSE Computing (if taken) and grade 6 in GCSE Maths.

Mathematical Studies will need to be studied in the sixth form as an additional subject, unless A-Level Maths is being studied.

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