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What's covered, in curriculum order. Titles and summaries are free to browse; the full section, with worked examples, unlocks with a free account.
1. The Development Process
The basic stages every simple program is built through: understanding the problem, planning a solution, writing it, and checking it works.
2. Data Types & Storing Lists of Data
The basic data types a simple program stores its information as, and how a list lets it store several related values together.
3. Sequence, Selection & Iteration
The three basic building blocks of a program's logic, and simple examples of each.
4. How Data & Instructions Are Stored in Binary
Why a computer stores absolutely everything, numbers, text, and even the program's own instructions, as binary.
6. Computer Hardware & Software
The basic physical parts of a computer system, and the difference between hardware and software.
7. Connectivity
How computers connect to each other and to the internet, and the basic benefits and risks that come with being connected.
8. Security Issues
Basic risks a connected computer faces, and simple precautions that help protect against them.
9. What Is an Information System?
What an information system actually is, why it needs a clear purpose and a well-designed user interface, and the basic data it stores.
10. Database Basics
One of the three real routes for building an information system at this level: storing data in tables made of fields and records.
11. Website Basics
The second real route: structuring an information system's content as a simple webpage using basic HTML.
12. Multimedia Information System Basics
The third real route: combining text, images, audio, and video together into one multimedia information system.
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