{"id":1003,"date":"2015-12-18T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2015-12-18T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:07:01","slug":"higher-prelim-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/2015\/12\/18\/higher-prelim-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher &#8211; Prelim Revision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should all be in study mode as the prelim is just after the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>You can use this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/uploads\/sites\/12638\/2015\/12\/2016-H-Prelim-Revision.pptx\">2016 H Prelim Revision<\/a>\u00a0powerpoint to take notes and help you out.<\/p>\n<p>Use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/education\/subjects\/zxmh34j\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Bitesize <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.hw.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scholar<\/a> to study this list of topics.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computational Constructs\n<ul>\n<li>parameter passing (value and reference, formal and actual)<\/li>\n<li>sub-programs\/routines, defined by their name and arguments (inputs and outputs), including\n<ul>\n<li>functions<\/li>\n<li>procedures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Data Types and Structures\n<ul>\n<li>string<\/li>\n<li>numeric (integer and real) variables<\/li>\n<li>Boolean variables<\/li>\n<li>1-D arrays and records (including arrays of records)<\/li>\n<li>sequential files (open, create, read, write, close)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Algorithm Specification\n<ul>\n<li>Analysis, exemplification and implementation of algorithms including:\n<ul>\n<li>input validation<\/li>\n<li>Find Max\/MIn<\/li>\n<li>linear search<\/li>\n<li>count occurrences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of other algorithms of similar complexity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Testing and documenting solutions\n<ul>\n<li>constructing a test plan<\/li>\n<li>comprehensive testing<\/li>\n<li>syntax, execution and logic errors<\/li>\n<li>dry runs<\/li>\n<li>trace tables \/tools<\/li>\n<li>breakpoints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Low Level Operations\n<ul>\n<li>Use of binary to represent and store\n<ul>\n<li>Integers and real numbers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should all be in study mode as the prelim is just after the holidays. You can use this 2016 H Prelim Revision\u00a0powerpoint to take notes and help you out. Use BBC Bitesize or Scholar to study this list of topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldhigher","category-prelim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}