Talk:A-level Computing
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create a general hints and tips page
- do not round the 1s and 0s off numbers, if the question asks for 8 bits or uses 8 bits in it, answer in 8 bits!
- do not use brand names in answering questions, give a generic answer such as office software, NOT MS Office
I have started this page as an appendix
I found this wikibook whilst contemplating creating my own wikibook for the HIGCSE Computer Studies curriculum, which I teach at a local school. My thought is to co-develop the book with my students. It would make more sense, though to collaborate on this wikibook, provided it is not intended to be totally A-Level specific. Since I am not familiar with the A-level syllabus, I can't even attempt to guess.
Is it going to be possible to generalise this text to cover A, AS and H(I)GCSE? or would it be better for me to start something different?
- I think it would be best to keep the books separate (as they cover different syllabuses), but they can (and, from what you're saying, probably should) borrow heavily from each other. If you code into a page the text {{:Main Page}} the Main Page (as updated from time to time) will appear on that page. This allows you to borrow and share whole pages of the wikibook, if desired. I don't know much about computing, and I don't know what HIGCSE is, but it's perfectly reasonable, to have a page HIGCSE Computing/Processing and Programming Techniques/Operating Systems that only contains the text {{:A-level Computing/Processing and Programming Techniques/Operating Systems}}, Jguk 09:40, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- I started this page and am planning to put a lot of work into it over the next year as i cover the course with my students. I would love to hear what modules your course comprises of and see if we can share any chapters. Would be great to have some more people working on this --Pluke 20:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
I will be doing the A-Level course from 2006-8 on GNU/Linux, so hopefully I can contribute to the LAMP section (I am planning to use a similar system for one of the projects.) I also have some ideas for possible projects, and I would like to keep UNIX methods (such as ./configure and make to compile a custom project from the source) on this technical course. Uncle Lemon 20:03, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
I will be teaching this syllibus next year (after a few years of edexcel). I plan to encorage my students to contribute. if other teachers out their want to collaberate, please get in touch. As a department we are planning to use MS Access for the AS project and Visual Basic for the A2 project. Any advice is welcome.. especially for the AS project. --Joe mc h 22:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
