Changes to Blog
This blog will now contain information about three levels of the Computing Science Course.
- National 4
- National 5
- Higher
Testing
Links and navigation
Matches user interface design
Coding
- Scripting languages (including JavaScript)
- Mark-up languages (including HTML)
Media Types
- Standard file formats:
- Text: txt, rtf
- Audio: wav, mp3
- Graphics: jpeg, bmp, gif, png
- Video: mp4, avi
- Factors affecting file size and quality, including resolution, colour depth, sampling rate
- Calculation of file size for colour bitmap
- Need for compression
2014 Past Paper (With Answers)
User interface (also applies to SDD)
User requirements (visual layout, navigation, selection, consistency, interactivity, readability)
Structures and links (web based)
- Website, page, URL
- Hyperlink (internal, external) relative and absolute addressing
- Navigation
- Web browsers and search engines
- Good design to aid navigation, usability and accessibility
National 5 – Information System Design and Development (Revision)
The following concepts and vocabulary may apply to a range of information systems types and contexts including:
Databases, websites, games, mobile applications, kiosk systems
A supporting video playlist can be found on YouTube.
- Structures and links (database)
- Structures and links (web based)
- User interface (also applies to SDD)
- Media Types
- Coding
- Testing
Structures and links (database)
- Database structure: field, record, file
- Database structure: flat file, linked tables, primary keys, foreign keys
- Field types (text, numbers, date, time, graphic, object, calculated, link, boolean)
- Validation (presence check, restricted choice, field length, range)
- Database operations search, sort (on multiple fields)
- Good design to avoid data duplication and modification errors (insert, delete, update)
