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A/AS Level Computer Science for OCR Student Book (A Level Comp 2 Computer Science OCR)
£33.70
Written for the OCR A/AS Level Computer Science specifications for first teaching from 2015, this print student book helps students build their knowledge and master underlying computing principles and concepts. The student book develops computational thinking, programming and problem-solving skills. Suitable for all abilities, it puts computing into context and gives students a real-life view on professional applications of computing skills. Answers to end-of-chapter questions are located in the free online teacher’s resource. A Cambridge Elevate enhanced edition is also available.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, Student edition (5 Oct. 2017) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 460 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1108412718 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1108412711 |
| Dimensions | 22 x 2.01 x 27.61 cm |
by Katya Mutafchieva
This is how it arrived.
by Amazon Customer
information so far seems correct, lacks a bit of detail, the elevate edition is trash all it seems to do is give you an online service which is utterly useless
by Miles Morales
I bought this book at the start of my A-Levels. I used it for the 1st half of my 1st year just to look through the specification to see it consisted of tons of knowledge in which I would never be tested on and had no need for. This book was super thick as well. I ended up just using the spec, Craig and Dave YT, and a few other sites for my notes. Right now I am predicted an A* and I am pretty sure if I used this book the whole of 1st year that wouldn’t be my predicted grade.
by Katya Mutafchieva
This book contains a large amount of uneccessary and redundant information such as, when explaining software development life cycles instead of going into detail about the development life cycles such as Extreme Programming or the Waterfall life cycle, it literally gives you the defintion, THE DEFINITION. OF. A. “PROGRAMMER” ARE YOU SERIOUS? I AM BECOMING A PROGRAMMER – I’m stopping myself from ranting here-. Furthermore the book feels bloated with information that you just don’t need to know! Additionally each of the chapters feature questions at the end relating to the chapter designed to test you, there are literally no answers included, pathetic, and the questions are not styled in the same way as OCR asks questions… so what is the point of the questions? Seriously this book… oh and the topic on race conditions, it states that running two threads where one takes away from something a million times and something adds to the same thing a million times will generate an incorrect result, however two different threads adding to the same thing generates a valid output and it says the first example minusing and adding a million times generates the wrong output because of the order of operations, m8, you could add and minus both a million times each from the same result in any order and still get zero therefore it does not generate the wrong result based purely on the order but because of something else, something else that is NOT explained, which is a giant plot hole in your book ffs. I hate this book, I hate the authors, but other than that, it’s pretty good as a starter pack, you just need to use the internet at the same time of reading the book to understand what the book is actually explaining, which is not good because the book should not have to be read alongside other resources to be understood, but oh well, that’s the quality of this book for ya.
by Mr P.
This is the best of the OCR CS text books. We have all three. This is the clearest.
by Joe McBride
Alistair Surrall’s textbook on Computer Science is a masterpiece. It navigates you through the entire course from the structure and function of the processor to computational techniques. The style and delivery is simple. I would definitely recommend it to anyone taking AS or A level computer science.