Mine in 1982 was called A level Computer "Science", not studies. It was pretty dry content as above, just around the time games consoles and home computers became big and were a world apart from paper tape and learning about random and sequential file access...
Lessons were spent in the first half hour yawning our heads off, and later in the second half slaying the aliens ;-)
*only* RS and Farnell, the latter, like CPC being a part of the Premier Farnell Group.
I've had a projected delivery date of 14/05/12 from Farnell. Ordered 29/02/12
I know. In fact I spent some time today advising a student to sign up for the BTEC instead of A levels.
studies or science .. I'm sure I could personally dessicate the subject even more :-(
Did you get an earlier one of 16/4/12? If so, that's the correct one and the later date is a mistake.
Also note that both dates are actually 'week commencing'...!
I think we had 20 - 30, but there were only about six other institutions running the same course in the country that year.
Computer Science is usually fairly full on and technically deep. Lots of focus on high and low level languages, programming, microprocessor and computer architecture (across micro to mainframe), peripherals. Logic, boolean algebra, rudimentary digital circuit design...Plus systems type work on things like public utility billing and other big data processing tasks. Ours culminated three papers IIRC One two hours short answer paper, and two three hour long written answer papers.
I had one 23/04/12
I presume that since they are part of Farnell they got included. They certainly seemed happy to take orders (and by the sounds of it, were inundated with them)
There was a fair overlap if I recall... as part of our A level course we actually sat the AO level Computer Studies exam after year one. (AO being O level in standard but aimed at an older audience IIRC)
Did you have that book by Carl French? Seemed to be very popular at the time... the purple "Science" one, and a slightly thinner tgold coloured "Studies" one.
Yup! Both are still swimming about in the Loft somewhere. Should dig it out and have another go at those karnaugh maps :)
Don't quite believe the current cost of the book on Amazon - £46?
Still it has gone up three editions since my one ;-)
and who (families) doesn't have a spare TV?
Keyboard 9.99, mouse 5.99 memory 9.99, total cost 50 quid
tim
That's the standard mechanism for "ARM" processors. There are a dozen (or more) manufactures all producing them with different "on chip" add ons for specific purposes. Some may have as many as 30 different extra "modules" all on chip.
tim
How are you proposing to add memory?
He presumably means an SD card.
Thass not memory in this context, though, is it? If he means SSD equivalent he shoud say so.
generate electric clock impulses (pulsynetic etc) derived from NTP
Owain
Cheaper version of this - a face-tracking robot eye:
Parts cost on that V1 is around =A3100, of which 40-ish each is on both the mbed controller and the serial interface camera to feed it. An Arduino hasn't got the horsepower. An rPi though is capable, cheaper and best of all it can use a USB-interface webcam that's under a tenner. Using the rPi could halve the electronics cost. I'm planning to offer kits for them - several people who want props can handle making the model (in a variety of forms), but are shy of the electronics and coding.
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