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Revision notes, activities, lesson plans, teaching ideas, and other resources for GCSE, A-Level, and IB Computer Science teachers and students.
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Examples of Local Cryptocurrencies
Digital Money for Local Communities covers three examples of country-wide c...
Hash function
A hash function takes arbitrary sized input data (e.g. a fil...
Cryptocurrencies vs regular currencies
What is Bitcoin and How Does it Work? is a high level overview of the Bitco...
Examples of Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin is by far the most well known cryptocurrency. The Bitcoin website w...
Practice paper 3 exam questions
One of the drawbacks of the yearly case study is that there are no past p...
Emergency Management System Explainer Video
This short video gives an overview of some EMIS features. It includes many ...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
For some functionality, an EMIS may also be connected to a GIS (Geographic ...
Programming languages - from Scratch to machine code
The CS Field Guide has a very comprehensive guide to different types of pro...
Assembly language simulators
There are several assembly language simulators available for use online. Si...
In this topic students are expected to have an understanding of database basics, including single table databases, primary keys, and queries. For the 2016 syllabus CIE have also added the requirement that students should be able to specify appropriate data types for fields. Click here for recommended Cambridge IGCSE Computer Science textbooks.
Database tutorials - GCFLearnFree YouTube channel
GCFLearnFree's YouTube channel has videos on a wide range of subjects, including Microsoft Access. The videos start with the absolute basics, introducing the background concepts and simple single table databases (very useful for the IGCSE Computer Science course). They then move on to more complex topics such as designing different types of queries, creating forms, and formatting reports. Video are generally less than 5 minutes, which means they get straight down into the details and make it easy to skip to the right part. The video focus on Access 2013 but students should be able to adapt the techniques to other versions too.
Updated: 2015-04-11
