'A' Level Computing

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Payne Gallway, 2000 - Computers - 385 pages
A textbook for 'A' Level computing organised in modular format for new AQA specification.
 

Contents

Module
2
Chapter 2 Classification of Software
8
Chapter 3 Bits and Bytes
12
Introduction to Programming
16
Introducing Pascal
20
Chapter 6 Variables Assignments Reading and Writing
23
Chapter 7 Iteration Selection
28
Module 1
35
Chapter 19 Network Environments
88
Chapter 20 Wide Area Networks
91
Module 2
92
Module 3
114
Types of input error
142
Module 4
162
Processing and Programming Techniques
191
The vectored interrupt mechanism
221

Chapter 9 More on Selection and Iteration
41
Chapter 10 Arrays and Data Types
46
Chapter 11 Procedures and Functions
50
Sequential File Processing
59
Chapter 13 Random Access File Processing
63
Chapter 14 Queues and Stacks
67
Chapter 15 Binary Trees
71
Chapter 16 Data Representation
74
Chapter 17 Inside the Computer
79
Chapter 18 Communication Methods
84
Module 5
266
Advanced Systems Development
281
Entity Attribute Modelling EAR
303
306
331
Online Shopping and Banking
345
Encryption
351
Appendix
361
Index
379
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About the author (2000)

Pat Heathcote has worked as a programmer and systems analyst, and has many years of experience in teaching Computing and Information Technology. She has served as an Assistant Examiner with AQA, is on the Subject Committee for Computing and is Chair of Examiners for Edexcel AVCE and GNVQ. She is now a full-time author and publisher.

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