Specification points

AQA GCSE Computer Science 8525

43 points in 8 topics, with AQA's codes and titles.

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3.1 Fundamentals of algorithms

3.1.1 Representing algorithms
3.1.2 Efficiency of algorithms
3.1.3 Searching algorithms
3.1.4 Sorting algorithms

3.2 Programming

3.2.1 Data types
3.2.2 Programming concepts
3.2.3 Arithmetic operations in a programming language
3.2.4 Relational operations in a programming language
3.2.5 Boolean operations in a programming language
3.2.6 Data structures
3.2.7 Input/output
3.2.8 String handling operations in a programming language
3.2.9 Random number generation in a programming language
3.2.10 Structured programming and subroutines (procedures and functions)
3.2.11 Robust and secure programming

3.3 Fundamentals of data representation

3.3.1 Number bases
3.3.2 Converting between number bases
3.3.3 Units of information
3.3.4 Binary arithmetic
3.3.5 Character encoding
3.3.6 Representing images
3.3.7 Representing sound
3.3.8 Data compression

3.4 Computer systems

3.4.1 Hardware and software
3.4.2 Boolean logic
3.4.3 Software classification
3.4.4 Classification of programming languages and translators
3.4.5 Systems architecture

3.5 Fundamentals of computer networks

3.6 Cyber security

3.6.1 Fundamentals of cyber security
3.6.2 Cyber security threats
3.6.2.1 Social engineering
3.6.2.2 Malicious code (malware)
3.6.3 Methods to detect and prevent cyber security threats

3.7 Relational databases and structured query language (SQL)

3.7.1 Relational databases
3.7.2 Structured query language (SQL)