{"id":946,"date":"2013-02-15T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lanark.s-lanark.sch.uk\/?page_id=946"},"modified":"2013-02-15T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T10:50:30","slug":"standard-grade-computing-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/ourschool\/icdt\/computing-department\/standard-grade-computing-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"S4 Computing Science &#8211; National 4 and 5 Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0National 4 and National 5 Computing Science\u00a0are one\u00a0year courses offered in\u00a0fourth year.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1400\" alt=\"Computer Programmer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lanark.s-lanark.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Computer-programmer-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> Students will study Computing Science five periods a week.<\/p>\n<p>The Computing Science course consists of two units:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Software Design and Development, and<\/li>\n<li>Information Systems Design and Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Software Design and Development<\/h3>\n<p>Students will learn the skills to write their own programs using a programming language called Visual Basic. This will help to improve students logic and problem solving skills.<\/p>\n<p>This unit also investigates basic computer architecture and the use of binary to store\u00a0a range of data types including\u00a0numeric, textual and graphical data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Information Systems Design and Development<\/h3>\n<p>This unit provides the opportunity for students to improve on the practical skills\u00a0developed in S2 and S3. Students are expected to create an electronic information system, using relational databases, web-authoring\u00a0and presentation software, as well as learn about the security issues, legal implications and environmental impact of information systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Image courtesy of jscreationzs \/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0National 4 and National 5 Computing Science\u00a0are one\u00a0year courses offered in\u00a0fourth year.\u00a0 Students will study Computing Science five periods a week. The Computing Science course consists of two units: Software Design and Development, and Information Systems Design and Development &nbsp; Software Design and Development Students will learn the skills to write their own programs using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/ourschool\/icdt\/computing-department\/standard-grade-computing-studies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S4 Computing Science &#8211; National 4 and 5 Course<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6350,"featured_media":0,"parent":45,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-946","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}