{"id":433,"date":"2017-09-26T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T09:35:46","slug":"higher-computing-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/courses\/higher-computing-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Computing Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computing Science at Higher level has the same four topics as National 5, but goes into further detail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web Design and Development<\/li>\n<li>Database Design and Development<\/li>\n<li>Software Design and Development<\/li>\n<li>Computer Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The course contains a substantial amount of coding, requiring pupils to pay attention to detail and develop their enjoy problem-solving skills. The languages learnt are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HTML<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>CSS<\/strong>\u00a0for Web Design and Development<\/li>\n<li><strong>SQL<\/strong>\u00a0for Database Design and Development<\/li>\n<li><strong>Python3<\/strong>\u00a0for Software Design and Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Towards the end of the course, pupils will complete an 8-hour assessment in class time. This will assess pupils practical skills on analysis, design, implementation\u00a0and testing. This will make up about 30% of the final course grade.\u00a0The remainder of the course is assessed in a final exam.<\/p>\n<p>The SQA website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/56924.html\">https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/56924.html<\/a>) contains the Course Specification along with a Specimen Exam Paper and Sample Coursework task. Reading the exam paper and coursework task will allow pupils to better know if this is the course for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computing Science at Higher level has the same four topics as National 5, but goes into further detail: Web Design and Development Database Design and Development Software Design and Development Computer Systems The course contains a substantial amount of coding, requiring pupils to pay attention to detail and develop their enjoy problem-solving skills. The languages &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/courses\/higher-computing-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Higher Computing Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":425,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-433","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions\/764"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AHSComputing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}