Hi, these notes are up to date for the 2025 and 2026 Computer Science OCR A Level exams, under H446 specification.

1.1: The characteristics of contemporary processor, input, output and storage devices

1.2: Software and Software Development

1.3: Exchanging Data

1.4: Data types, data structures, algorithms

1.5: Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues

2.1: Elements of computational thinking

2.2: Problem solving and programming

2.3: Algorithms

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