1.1
Characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage
CPU, architecture, processors and storage.
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1.2
Software and software development
Operating systems, applications, development and translators.
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Exchanging data
Networks, databases, compression, encryption and data transfer.
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Data types, data structures and algorithms
Data representation, Boolean algebra and structures.
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Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues
Legislation and societal implications of technology.
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Elements of computational thinking
Abstraction, planning, procedural, logical and concurrent thinking.
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Problem solving and programming
Programming techniques, OOP, recursion and computational methods.
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Programming project (NEA)
Analysis, design, development, testing and evaluation.
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