How can you go about with Computer Science?

I'm completely helpless at Computer Science, my teacher isn't the best of the best. He has spent far too long on coursework and we only just recently started to learn what we needed on the specification for the GCSE Computer Science exam. :s-smilie:

However, the computer science course is really long and so I may not get through all the essentials. Could someone link some useful websites that may help with revision? and ideas to go about with the revision will be greatly appreciated! :wink:

Reply 1

littleswany

17

Original post by Devestation

I'm completely helpless at Computer Science, my teacher isn't the best of the best. He has spent far too long on coursework and we only just recently started to learn what we needed on the specification for the GCSE Computer Science exam. :s-smilie:

However, the computer science course is really long and so I may not get through all the essentials. Could someone link some useful websites that may help with revision? and ideas to go about with the revision will be greatly appreciated! :wink:

Hey, sorry to hear that. Which exam board are you doing?

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Mikos

18

Are you doing OCR? If so, all our lessons are taught with powerpoints, and they're a really good resource. If you're doing OCR, I can send them to you.

Reply 3

BigYoSpeck

19

Week 0 CS50 (Harvard University intro to computer science)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFenJJtAEzE - This is way beyond GCSE but it's so well delivered it's worth a watch. Even though it's beyond GCSE level it's still an intro lecture so aimed at people with no prior knowledge

The CS50 video library is also worth a look to expand upon any specific topics - https://www.youtube.com/user/cs50tv/videos

Crash Course Computer Science
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLME-KWdxI8dcaHSzzRsNuOLXtM2Ep_C7a - Keeps things quite simple at first but ramps up once it gets into later videos

BBC Bitesize Computer Science
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z34k7ty - Quite a lot to get through and basically covers the entire syllabus

Electrical4u Binary, Hexadecimal and Octal guides
https://www.electrical4u.com/binary-number-system-binary-to-decimal-and-decimal-to-binary-conversion/

Wikipedia datatypes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_data_type - You will need to know the basic datatypes and what kind of information they can store

Reply 4

Devestation

OP

6

Original post by littleswany

Hey, sorry to hear that. Which exam board are you doing?

OCR

Reply 5

Devestation

OP

6

Original post by Mikos

Are you doing OCR? If so, all our lessons are taught with powerpoints, and they're a really good resource. If you're doing OCR, I can send them to you.

I do OCR and yes, I will greatly appreciate all the help I can get at this point

Reply 6

Mikos

18

Original post by Devestation

I do OCR and yes, I will greatly appreciate all the help I can get at this point

Are you doing the 9-1 spec?

Reply 7

Devestation

OP

6

Original post by Mikos

Are you doing the 9-1 spec?

yup

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username2980692

9

Wait what if you are taking the exam this year then it can't be 9-1 spec...

Reply 9

Hōseki

14

http://craigndave.org/

Reply 10

TercioOfParma

18

Original post by Devestation

I'm completely helpless at Computer Science, my teacher isn't the best of the best. He has spent far too long on coursework and we only just recently started to learn what we needed on the specification for the GCSE Computer Science exam. :s-smilie:

However, the computer science course is really long and so I may not get through all the essentials. Could someone link some useful websites that may help with revision? and ideas to go about with the revision will be greatly appreciated! :wink:

Computer science is the sort of subject you need to teach yourself above all else. So go through the course and pursue each part of it to its logical conclusion, even if this sits outside the syllabus.

Reply 11

AIR127

10

Original post by Mikos

Are you doing OCR? If so, all our lessons are taught with powerpoints, and they're a really good resource. If you're doing OCR, I can send them to you.

Could you please send those power points?

How can you go about with Computer Science?

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