Year 4 – New Syllabus 

Periods	Topic … activity
4	Fundamentals of Algorithms: Representing Algorithms
4	Fundamentals of Algorithms: Efficiency of Algorithms
4	Fundamentals of Algorithms: Searching Algorithms
4	Fundamentals of Algorithms: Sorting Algorithms
2	Programming: Data Types
2	Lab Work: Python – Programming in Python and the Interactive mode
2	Programming: Programming Concepts
2	Lab Work: Python – Operators
2	Programming: Arithmetic, Relational and Boolean Operations
2	Lab Work: Python – Input/Output	Activity on Python 1
2	Programming: Data Structures
2	Lab Work: Python – Strings
2	Programming: Input/Output
2	Lab Work: Python – Numbers
2	Programming: String Handling Operations
2	Lab Work: Python – Selection 1
2	Programming: Random Number Generation	Activity on Python 2
2	Lab Work: Python – Selection 2
4	Programming: Structured Programming and Subroutines
4	Lab Work: Python – Iteration
2	Programming: Robust and Secure Programming
2	Lab Work: Python – Lists (one-dimensional)
4	Fundamentals of Data Representation: Number Bases
2	Lab Work: Python – Lists (two-dimensional) and Tuples
4	Fundamentals of Data Repr.: Converting between Number Bases
2	Lab Work: Python – Validating User Input	Activity on Python 3
2	Fundamentals of Data Representation: Units of Information
2	Lab Work: Python – The ASCII Code
2	Fundamentals of Data Representation: Binary Arithmetic
2	Lab Work: Python – Regular Expressions
2	Fundamentals of Data Representation: Character Encoding
4	Lab Work: Python – Searching
4	Fundamentals of Data Representation: Representing Images
4	Lab Work: Python – Sorting	Activity on Python 4
4	Fundamentals of Data Representation: Representing Sound
4	Lab Work: Python – Built-in and User Defined Functions
4	Fundamentals of Data Representation: Data Compression
4	Lab Work: Python – Functions Using Parameters

 

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Year 5 – Old Syllabus 

	Fundamentals of Data Representation:
4	Storage Units and Binary Numbers
3	Binary Arithmetic and Hexadecimal
2	ASCII and Unicode
2	Images
3	Sound
3	Compression
6	Computer Systems: Boolean Logic
	Fundamentals of Cyber Security:
2	Cyber Security Threats
3	Social engineering
3	Malicious Code
4	Detecting and Preventing Cyber Security Threats
	Impacts of Digital Technology:
2	Ethical Issues
2	Digital Technology in Society
2	Legislation and Privacy
30	NEA coursework
14	Final Revision