1. Higher Computing Science 2016 Prelim Revision

2. Topics to revise Computational Constructs parameter passing (value and reference, formal and actual) sub-programs/routines, defined by their name and arguments (inputs and outputs), including functions procedures Data Types and Structures string numeric (integer and real) variables Boolean variables 1-D arrays and records (including arrays of records) sequential files (open, create, read, write, close)

3. Topics to revise Algorithm Specification Analysis, exemplification and implementation of algorithms including: input validation Find Max/MIn linear search count occurrences Analysis of other algorithms of similar complexity Testing and documenting solutions constructing a test plan comprehensive testing syntax, execution and logic errors dry runs trace tables /tools breakpoints Low Level Operations Use of binary to represent and store Integers and real numbers

4. 2's complement

5. Actual Parameters

6. Arithmetic Operators

7. Array Handling

8. Boolean Variables

9. Breakpoints

10. By Reference/By Value

11. Count Occurrences

12. Data Structure - Records

13. Floating Point Notation

14. Formal Parameters

15. Functional Calls

16. Functions Return

17. Global Variables

18. IF..ELIF..ELSE

19. Indexes in Arrays

20. Logical Errors

21. Logical Operators

22. Reading from files

23. Trace Table

24. Writing to file