This set of resources is designed for one lesson in which students will learn the differences between how Compilers and Interpreters work. This is designed as an interactive lesson to take the pressure off the tutor in delivering this topic. This topic is useful for both GCSE Computer Science and designed specifically for A-Level Computer Science with the AQA specification in mind.

A series of resources to support the learning and understanding of the operation of a Laser Printer, Barcode Scanner and a Digital Camera. These three external hardware devices feature on AQA Computer Science AS and A-Level. Students need to be able to describe their operation. Powerpoints have been used as flipped learning, and pdf as follow up for students to demonstrate their understanding. Also included are the key mark scheme points from the exam board.

Some activities and information regarding Database Normalisation with a task sheet and a walk through of the answers. Includes a handout on normalisation and a few different activities.

A summary of all of the key information and terms relating to the TCP/IP section of the specification of A-Level Computer Science.

Knowledge organiser designed around AQA spec of Computer Science. Includes definitions from the theoretical side of OO programming, examples of diagrams with inheritance aggregation (composition/association) as well as UML diagram. Useful for revision

Two powerpoints, a lesson plan including follow up questions and links to flipped learning resources on the topics, two follow up activities related to the flipped learning. This covers the content for A-Level Computer Science on Hardware and Software - this is tailored to AQA specification and makes use of definitions from the exam board mark schemes. This topic is also useful for GCSE Computer Science.

Powerpoints for week 1 of Computing GCSE. What is a Computer System? What is Computing? Reliability of systems. Importance of computer systems. Legal and Ethical effects of Computers.

Letters given to all Computer Science students with a range of project ideas to help them decide on an idea of their own. Once an idea is chosen further work is completed using the project proposal in order to propose their final idea. Used for AQA Computer Science A-Level

A series of resources for GCSE Computing to cover logic gates, truth tables and representing circuits as Boolean Algebra

A set of commands to use with an online Haskell program https://ghc.io/ in order for students to develop their understanding of Haskell for A-Level Computer Science AQA specification. The resource has commands that will take students 30 minutes to play with and develop their understanding of by trying variations of these. Accompanies are some sample exam questions that have been made up based on the specification and also a different take on some of the specimen questions. Answers are included.

A-Level Computer Science (AQA) Analysis Checklist to use for peer/self assessment before submission.

An introduction to bitmapped images with a paint by numbers (using Binary) activity. Also some publisher documents showing how images are made up using pixels. Some good starter points for Bitmapped / Pixels.

For revision - mind-map on hardware

A summary of key terms/definitions and statements regarding The Internet and how it works. Including Packets, firewalls, routers. Also includes a little on security. Spec Reference: 4.9.3.1 and some of 4.9.3.2

Mind map including key terms relating to bespoke, systems, application software complete with examples e.g. of utilities.

Mind-Map for Computer Science (Computing) on the generations of computer languages.

Three PowerPoint's focussed on Memory, Secondary Storage and CPU. Accompanied by task sheets in computer memory and also secondary storage.

A small game based on Angry Birds in Scratch

The first in the series of mock exam papers designed around AQA A-Level Computer Science pre-release material Text Adventure. This mock exam paper is designed to be sat in a 45 minute period and give students an initial practice with the pre-release skeleton code for 2019 paper 1 series. There is a mark scheme that contains sample code in C# (hopefully this can be easily adapted to other programming languages).