'A' Level Computing (5th Edition)
Published on 15. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-904467-52-6 (ISBN)
Description
This popular standard textbook has been comprehensively revised by experienced teacher and examiner Sylvia Langfield. She has bought the text up to date (espically the objectoriented programming and networking chapters, HTML and ASP, networking (TCP/IP and sun-nets) and coursework. It is arranged in 5 modules corresponding to the AQA specification. Exercises and questions from rect exam papers are given at the end of each chapter. A scheme of work, the answers and a complete set of OHP mesters can be downloaded for our web site.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904467-52-6 (9781904467526)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Sylvia Langfield is Head of Computing at a Sixth-form college and is a Senior Examiner for Computing with a major GCE examining board. She has been teaching 'A' Level computing and programming in Pascal for over 18 years, and has also worked as a programmer and application developer.
Content
Chapter 1 Computer Hardware Chapter 2 Classification of Software Chapter 3 Bits and Bytes Chapter 4 Data Representation (Text and Numbers) Chapter 5 Data Representation (Sound and Graphics) Chapter 6 Programming Concepts Chapter 7 Program Design and Maintenance Chapter 8 Dry-run Exercises Chapter 9 Queues and Stacks Chapter 10 Binary Trees Chapter 11 Inside the Computer Chapter 12 Communication Methods Chapter 13 Local Area Networks Chapter 14 Wide Area Networks Chapter 15 General Purpose Packages Chapter 16 Spreadsheets Chapter 17 Records and Files Chapter 18 Serial and Sequential Files Chapter 19 Direct Access Files Chapter 20 File Security Methods Chapter 21 Data Processing Integrity Methods Chapter 22 Entity-Relationship Modelling Chapter 23 Database Concepts Chapter 24 Operating Systems Chapter 25 Hardware Devices Chapter 26 Computer Crime and the Law Chapter 27 Data Protection and Health and Safety Chapter 28 Information Processing Applications Chapter 29 The Classical Systems Life-Cycle Chapter 30 From Design to Evaluation Chapter 31 Human-Computer Interface Chapter 32 Number Bases and Representation Chapter 33 Floating Point Numbers Chapter 34 Structure and Role of the Processor Chapter 35 Assembly Language Instructions Chapter 36 Instruction Formats and Addressing modes Chapter 37 High Level Languages Chapter 38 Object-Oriented Programming Chapter 39 Prolog Programming Chapter 40 Recursion Chapter 41 Lists Chapter 42 Linked Lists Chapter 43 Stacks Chapter 44 Queues Chapter 45 Trees Chapter 46 Searching and Sorting Chapter 47 Operating System Classification Chapter 48 Operating System Concepts Chapter 49 Memory, File and I/O Management Chapter 50 Database Concepts Chapter 51 Database Design and Normalisation Chapter 52 Querying a Database Chapter 53 Data Definition and Data Manipulation Chapter 54 Analysing a System Chapter 55 Systems Design, Development and Testing Chapter 56 Implementation, Evaluation and Maintenance Chapter 57 Input and Output Methods Chapter 58 Networking Methods Chapter 59 Local Area Networks Chapter 60 Wide Area Networks Chapter 61 Inter-networking Chapter 62 The Internet Chapter 63 The World Wide Web Chapter 64 HTML and ASP Chapter 65 Java and Applets Chapter 66 Internet Security Chapter 67 Computer Applications and Effects