The Computing Tutor

All face to face tutorial sessions will take place in D224 at the Deanfield Campus at The Henley College.

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​Enrolled students will be able to access their revision material on learnzone/ Teams.

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Online support will be using either Skype, Zoom or Teams  - please see the Online Tutorials page for further details!

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​Students will be able to take any resources away with them on a USB memory stick, subject to copyright of TheComputingTutor

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​It is assumed that the exam board will be AQA and that the programming language used is C#, however support for OCR is available, as well as full support for Python.

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Topics covered may include:

• Data Structures - including Stacks, Queues, Graphs, Trees, Hashtables and Vectors

• Algorithms - tree traversal, Shortest Path, recursion, searching, sorting and RPN

• Finite State Machines, Turing Machines, Regular Expressions and BNF

• Binary Mathematics - including real numbers, negative numbers and subtraction and scientific notation

• Sound and Graphics

• Encryption

• Logic Gates and Boolean algebra

• Computer Architecture and the CPU including the Fetch Execute Cycle

• Assembly programming

• Legal and Ethical Issues

• Communications and Networking

• Database programming and Normalization using MySQL

• Understanding Flow charts and pseudocode

• Creating algorithms to solve problems 

• Explain the various programming language types

• Programming sequence, selection and iteration

• Using variables and constants, variable scope and roles

• Using single and multidimensional arrays

• Structured Programming

• Object Orientated Programming

• Functional Programming in F#

• Recursive Programming

• The Skeleton program

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As part of the Tutorial programme students can expect

• Detailed support in their curriculum

• Detailed help in their project requirements, implementation and write up

• Focused support on revision sessions

• Focused past paper question targeted to each student on the areas they are not sure about​​

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A typical session may involve​

• Covering any questions from the student

• Identifying common areas of difficulty

• Individual activities

• Practice past paper questions with access to textbooks

• Practice past paper questions under exam conditions