Technical terms and definitions for the A Level Computer Science course. Based on AQA and BCS glossaries.
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Created by Lyndsay Hope
almost 9 years ago
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Copied by Seb Fowkes
about 8 years ago
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ABSTRACTION
ALGORITHM
AUTOMATION
BANDWIDTH
BAUD RATE
BIT RATE
BROADBAND
BUBBLE SORT
CIPHER TEXT
CLIENT
CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM
COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL
COMPLEXITY OF A PROBLEM
COMPOSITE KEY
COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
CONCEPTUAL MODEL
CRYPTOGRAPHY
CYCLE
DATA MODEL
DATA TRANSMISSION
DATABASE
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
DECRYPTION
DEGREE (OF A VERTEX)
DEGREE OF RELATIONSHIP
DIRECTED GRAPH
EMBEDDED COMPUTER SYSTEM
ENCRYPTION
ENTITY
ROUTE INSPECTION PROBLEM
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH
EXPONENTIAL TIME ALGORITHM
FINITE STATE MACHINE (FSM)
FLOATING POINT NOTATION
FOREIGN KEY
GENERAL CASE
GRAPH
HALTING STATE
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
INHERITANCE
INTERNET
INTERPRETER
INTRACTABLE
LABELLED OR WEIGHTED GRAPH
LINEAR QUEUE
LINEAR SEARCH
LIST
MAINTAINABILITY OF SOFTWARE
MAINTENANCE
MEALY MACHINE
NEIGHBOURS
NORMALISATION (DB)
NORMALISED ENTITIES
NULL POINTER
OBJECT
OPERATING SYSTEM ROLE
OVERFLOW
PARALLEL DATA TRANSMISSION
PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK
PHISHING
PLAIN TEXT
POINTER TYPE
POLYMORPHISM
POLYNOMIAL GROWTH
POLYNOMIAL TIME ALGORITHM
PRECISION
PRIMARY KEY
PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSALITY
PRIORITY QUEUE
PROTOTYPE
PROTOTYPING
PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBERS
QUEUE
RECURSIVE DEFINITION
RECURSIVE ROUTINE
REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY
REGULAR EXPRESSION
REGULAR LANGUAGE
RELATION
RELATIONAL DATABASE
RELATIONSHIP
RELATIVE ERROR
ROBUST CODE
ROOTED TREE
ROUTER
WORM
WIRELESS NETWORK
WIFI
WEB SERVICES
WEB SERVER EXTENSION
WEB 2.0
VOLUMETRICS
VIRUS (COMPUTER)
VIRTUAL MACHINE
USABILITY
UNIVERSAL TM, UTM
UNDERFLOW
UNDECIDABLE
TURING MACHINE (TM)
TUPLE
TROJAN
TREE
TRAVELLER’S PROBLEM
TRANSITION TABLE
TRANSITION FUNCTION
TRACTABLE
TOPOLOGY (NETWORKS)
TIME-COMPLEXITY (OF AN ALGORITHM)
THIN-CLIENT NETWORK
SYSTEM SOFTWARE
STATIC DATA STRUCTURE
STATE TRANSITION DIAGRAM
STAND-ALONE COMPUTER
STACK FRAME
STACK
SPACE-COMPLEXITY
(OF AN ALGORITHM)
SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS)
SIMPLE GRAPH
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS
SERVER
SERIAL DATA TRANSMISSION
Big Data: Volume
Big Data: velocity
Big Data: variety
Register
Program Counter (PC)
Memory Address Register (MAR)
Memory Buffer Register (MBR)
AKA Memory Data Register (MDR)
Current Instruction Register (CIR)
Accumulator(ACC)
