Addressing the CCEA AS Level Digital Technology specification (AS 1 & AS 2), the full-colour illustrated chapters are supported by worked examples and case studies. Each chapter ends with a set of questions designed to reinforce students’ learning, with full answers available online via this link: http://colourpointeducational.com/media/content/DigitalTechnologyASAnswers.pdf

The authors are all experienced at teaching computer science. The book has been through a meticulous quality assurance process by an expert in the CCEA specification.

Contents:

• AS 1 Approaches to Systems Development

1 Reasons for Systems Development

2 Analysis

3 System Design, Development and Testing

4 System Implementation

5 Alternative Development Approaches

6 Software Projects

7 Security Issues

8 Algorithms

9 Fundamentals of Programming

10 Object-Oriented Programming.

• AS 2 Fundamentals of Digital Technology

11 Data Representation

12 Data and Information

13 Architecture

14 The User Interface and Data Compression

15 Software

16 Web Applications

17 Website Development