Higher Computing Science 2015-2016

Can I ask what you got in computing last year? Is the project quite difficult, and what's in it ? Sorry for all the questions it's just that my teachers taking the crash higher class and she's taking it for the first time, so she doesn't know much yet

I got an A for the overall course and about 90% in the project, dont know about the exam as i never asked.

What can i say, its not difficult if you work on it on regular basis. If you do not, you will just forget about things and that will make you panic and panic is not a good thing as it will cause you to make careless mistakes.

Im not sure if things changes but what i needed to do was to construct a simple program that will carry out series of tasks that are at higher level(i.e. sorting, file handling etc.) We also made a simple website in html, that presented the program that we worked on. I dont think the website was required, i think it was just like icing on top of a cake to pick up extra marks that might not have been picked up by the program.

Once we created the program and the website, we wrote a report including screenshots of the code as evidence. Throughout the whole project we kept a diary that everytime we worked on the project, we wrote down what we did on that day, any problems that occured how were they solved and any sources of notes we used that helped us like books, websites.

Hope that helped, but most importantly you should just keep it cool. It might look like an impossible task at the start but once you start breaking it into small parts and tackling it step by step, things will look better and more manageable.

I had my prelim about 2-3 weeks ago and it went quite well, got 78% I think, it was defo an A anyway. We're doing our information systems unit assessment atm (I've finished most of it) then straight onto the course assignment.

I only got that high a mark because she basically told us what to and what not to revise.

You would be surprised how many people still get a bad prelim score after being told exactly whats in the prelim, saying that it still surprises me.

Last years exam was a mess generally, however my teacher told us in November that whilst the SQA are aware of this, they aren't going to change it yet
We were given unit notes written by "AOK Forrester" (I think) which are quite good for the most part and the BrightRed textbook which is also pretty good. I also bought the Hodder Gibson How to Pass CfE Higher Computing guide is also really good and well detailed.
I don't bother with model papers unless I'm given a photocopy to try by my teacher, with last years exam, the specimen paper and the exemplar paper that is enough for me I feel.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask

We've just started our Course Assignments this week, and the database is an absolute b******, spending 2 weeks in class on that then exam revision after that.

What assignment did you do? We've got a massive database (which is making me want to destroy Access) about some diving championships and then I think the program just reads in names and calculates the scores in the finals.
I think the database would be easier if Access wasn't such a pain in the backside and pedantic about how you do things though.
I'm not concerned about any exams yet, I'm too busy trying to satisfy all the outcomes needed to sit the exams at the moment to worry about the actual thing.

Does anyone know the differences between internal and external style sheets?


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