As Salamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh World!
I've seen my fair share of bad resources whilst looking for ones to post on my blog. This "resource" however is by far the worst I've ever seen. Believe it or not, it was meant for the old OCR A level Computing course but I cannot even imagine how it is useful in any way.
Honestly, just take a look at it. Not only are the terms in the resource irrelevant to that specification, some of them aren't even related to computing! But every resource has it's benefits too.
This very resource actually inspired me to start the Ultimate OCR A Level Computer Science Dictionary series which you can find here along with all my other resources. I don't even want to go through in detail about how useless this resource is, but what I do want to illustrate is the quality of the average computer science resource.
Resources like these ultimately influenced me to start this blog. I know, I know, computer science (especially at A level) isn't a popular subject. Now I could add myself to the hundreds or even thousands of students who complain about how the exam boards write terrible specifications or horrendous exam papers but I decided not to.
I decided to do something about it by creating resources and sharing them on this blog for free. And I may not see the fruits of my efforts now, but I hope that soon enough these resources will reach to everyone taking this subject which is why for the first time i'm going to ask everyone reading this to please spread the word.
Also, if you have any suggestions or ideas just comment them below and together we can make computer science a subject that is fun, rewarding and easy to learn.
Here's the link: Computing Glossary Of Terms
Hope this helps (I guess)?
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Saturday, 9 December 2017
The Big List Of OCR A Level Computer Science Resources Created By The Muslim CompSci Version 3.0
As Salamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh World!
I know I've been posting really inconsistently these days which is because I am extremely busy - seriously, I haven't even started making the summary presentations for Component 2 yet.
I've also ran out of half decent resources to share so it's become harder to post something everyday. Anyway, for today's post I thought I'd make an updated list of all the resources I've made. Without further ado, here's the Big List version 3.0:
The Ultimate OCR A Level Computer Science Dictionary
(Almost) All The Algorithms You Need To Know For OCR A Level Computer Science
(Almost) Everything You Need To Know For OCR A Level Computer Science
The Most Detailed Yet Concise Summary Of OCR A Level Computer Science
Hope this helps!
I know I've been posting really inconsistently these days which is because I am extremely busy - seriously, I haven't even started making the summary presentations for Component 2 yet.
I've also ran out of half decent resources to share so it's become harder to post something everyday. Anyway, for today's post I thought I'd make an updated list of all the resources I've made. Without further ado, here's the Big List version 3.0:
The Ultimate OCR A Level Computer Science Dictionary
(Almost) All The Algorithms You Need To Know For OCR A Level Computer Science
(Almost) Everything You Need To Know For OCR A Level Computer Science
The Most Detailed Yet Concise Summary Of OCR A Level Computer Science
- Version 0.0
- 1.1.1 Structure and function of the processor
- 1.1.2 Types of processor
- 1.1.3 Input, output and storage
- 1.2.1 Systems Software
- 1.2.2 Applications Generation
- 1.2.3 Software Development
- 1.2.4 Types of Programming Language
- 1.3.1 Compression, Encryption & Hashing
- 1.3.2 Databases
- 1.3.3 Networks
- 1.3.4 Web Technologies
- 1.4.1 Data Types
- 1.4.2 Data Structures
- 1.4.3 Boolean Algebra
- 1.5.1 Computing Related Legislation
- 1.5.2 Moral & Ethical Issues
Hope this helps!
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Look What I Found...
As Salamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh World!
I know I haven't posted for 2 days, but hopefully today's post will make up for it. I was looking for the AS and A level 2017 exam papers for OCR Computer Science and I didn't manage to find the latter, but I did find scanned versions of the AS ones on Reddit.
Unfortunately, they don't come with mark schemes however, a bit more digging led to me to a TSR thread where a couple of people attempted to make an unofficial mark scheme for Paper 1 of the AS exams.
Personally, i'm not really for making unofficial mark schemes for exams unless they have definitive answers like maths. Making an unofficial mark scheme can be misleading for most questions as they can have numerous answers and even the official mark schemes don't show every answer that can be acceptable, they usually just show indicative content or possible answers.
Anyway, kudos to those who tried to shed some light on the exam. I reckon the A level 2017 exam papers are out there somewhere but it's going to have to take a bit more digging.
Here's the links:
I know I haven't posted for 2 days, but hopefully today's post will make up for it. I was looking for the AS and A level 2017 exam papers for OCR Computer Science and I didn't manage to find the latter, but I did find scanned versions of the AS ones on Reddit.
Unfortunately, they don't come with mark schemes however, a bit more digging led to me to a TSR thread where a couple of people attempted to make an unofficial mark scheme for Paper 1 of the AS exams.
Personally, i'm not really for making unofficial mark schemes for exams unless they have definitive answers like maths. Making an unofficial mark scheme can be misleading for most questions as they can have numerous answers and even the official mark schemes don't show every answer that can be acceptable, they usually just show indicative content or possible answers.
Anyway, kudos to those who tried to shed some light on the exam. I reckon the A level 2017 exam papers are out there somewhere but it's going to have to take a bit more digging.
Here's the links:
Hope this helps!
Monday, 4 December 2017
The Most Detailed Yet Concise Summary Of OCR A Level Computer Science: 1.5.2 Moral & Ethical Issues
As Salamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh World!
This is the last summary presentation of Component 1 and the 16th in this series. It's another relatively short one with only 10 slides and concludes section 1.5 as well. Now there's just 4 left for Component 2 and one for the Programming Project which I hope to complete before the end of this year InShaAllah.
1.5.2 Moral & Ethical Issues
Hope this helps!
This is the last summary presentation of Component 1 and the 16th in this series. It's another relatively short one with only 10 slides and concludes section 1.5 as well. Now there's just 4 left for Component 2 and one for the Programming Project which I hope to complete before the end of this year InShaAllah.
1.5.2 Moral & Ethical Issues
Hope this helps!
Sunday, 3 December 2017
The Most Detailed Yet Concise Summary Of OCR A Level Computer Science: 1.5.1 Computing Related Legislation
As Salamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh World!
Here's a short summary presentation of only 6 slides covering everything you need to know about this topic. Funnily enough, this resource is also the first on this blog that covers this topic. There's not even a label for it yet.
Here's the link: 1.5.1 Computing Related Legislation
Hope this helps!
Here's a short summary presentation of only 6 slides covering everything you need to know about this topic. Funnily enough, this resource is also the first on this blog that covers this topic. There's not even a label for it yet.
Here's the link: 1.5.1 Computing Related Legislation
Hope this helps!
Saturday, 2 December 2017
The Most Detailed Yet Concise Summary Of OCR A Level Computer Science: 1.4.3 Boolean Algebra
As Salamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh World!
This is the first and only Boolean algebra resource on this entire blog. Literally, there's not even a label for this topic which goes to show how hard it is to find good computer science resources that are free (something i'm always yammering on about).
Anyway, this is presentation 14 which has 13 slides and is also the last of 3 on section 1.4
Here's the link: 1.4.3 Boolean Algebra
Hope this helps!
This is the first and only Boolean algebra resource on this entire blog. Literally, there's not even a label for this topic which goes to show how hard it is to find good computer science resources that are free (something i'm always yammering on about).
Anyway, this is presentation 14 which has 13 slides and is also the last of 3 on section 1.4
Here's the link: 1.4.3 Boolean Algebra
Hope this helps!
Friday, 1 December 2017
The Most Detailed Yet Concise Summary Of OCR A Level Computer Science: 1.4.2 Data Structures
As Salamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh World!
Summary presentation 13 of my revision series covers this topic in only 9 slides. That brings the total number if slides across all presentations to 160 for those still keeping count. Anyway, there's only 3 more to go for Component 1 and then 4 for Component 2 and the last one is going to be on the Programming Project InShaAllah.
Here's the link: 1.4.2 Data Structures
Hope this helps!
Summary presentation 13 of my revision series covers this topic in only 9 slides. That brings the total number if slides across all presentations to 160 for those still keeping count. Anyway, there's only 3 more to go for Component 1 and then 4 for Component 2 and the last one is going to be on the Programming Project InShaAllah.
Here's the link: 1.4.2 Data Structures
Hope this helps!
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