{"id":86,"date":"2023-06-21T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:31:57","slug":"computing-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/computing-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"color: white;font-size: 15px;font-family: quicksand\">Why study Computing Science?<\/h1>\n<p>Computing science is vital to everyday life \u2013 on social, technological and economic levels. It shapes the world in which we live and its future. Computing is embedded in the world around us, from systems and devices in our homes to our places of work. It has also changed the way we learn, relax, travel and communicate.<\/p>\n<p>Learning computing science will give you many benefits apart from learning about technology. You will learn valuable transferable work and life skills, such as being able to solve problems in a logical way, think creatively and handle information.<\/p>\n<p>The skills you learn in this course are useful in lots of different job areas. These include science, communications, entertainment, education, business and industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/48486.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/rbabacs\/uploads\/sites\/19681\/2023\/06\/21131403\/comp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Career Pathways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See what career areas this subject could lead to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planitplus.net\/CareerAreas\/DownloadResourceDocument\/34\">Computing and ICT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Software Developer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Web Developer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Data Analyst<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Database Administrator<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Systems Administrator<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/48486.html\">SQA Computing Science<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why study Computing Science? Computing science is vital to everyday life \u2013 on social, technological and economic levels. It shapes the world in which we live and its future. Computing is embedded in the world around us, from systems and devices in our homes to our places of work. It has also changed the way &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24372,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbabacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}