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Application of ICT

Application of ICT from the first idea to exam level: every lesson builds on the one before, with a worked example, a step-through diagram where it helps, a quick check and practice that adapts to what you know. Follows Vermaat et al., Discovering Computers.

Application of ICT at a glance

What does Application of ICT cover?

ICT Basics, Algorithms & Flowcharts, Data & Number Systems, Software Engineering, Networking, Databases & SQL, Cybersecurity, Operating Systems, AI & Emerging Tech, Office Tools, Web: HTML, CSS & JS and Python. It follows Vermaat et al., Discovering Computers.

How many lessons does the Application of ICT course on Studious have?

13 units and 31 lessons, from "Components of ICT" to "Making pages interactive". Each lesson has a worked example, a quick check and practice that adapts to what you know, and many have step-by-step diagrams.

Course outline

  1. Unit 1 · Weeks 1–2

    What ICT is

    1. Components of ICT
    2. ICT in daily life
  2. Unit 2 · Week 3

    Algorithms and flowcharts

    1. What an algorithm is
    2. Flowcharts and pseudocode
  3. Unit 3 · Weeks 4–5

    How computers store data

    1. Data, information, bits and bytes
    2. Number systems
    3. Boolean logic
  4. Unit 4 · Week 6

    Software engineering

    1. The software development life cycle
    2. Process models
  5. Unit 5 · Week 7

    Networking

    1. Network types and topologies
    2. How the internet moves data
  6. Unit 6 · Weeks 8–10

    Databases and SQL

    1. Why databases
    2. SQL: creating tables
    3. SQL: working with data
  7. Unit 7 · Weeks 11–12

    Cybersecurity and digital citizenship

    1. Threats and staying safe
    2. Cryptography and ethical hacking
  8. Unit 8 · Week 13

    Operating systems

    1. System software, assembly and virtual machines
    2. What an operating system does
  9. Unit 9 · Weeks 14–16

    AI and emerging technologies

    1. Artificial intelligence and machine learning
    2. Prompt engineering
    3. IoT and cloud computing
    4. AR, VR and graphics
  10. Unit 10 · Lab 1–4

    Office and cloud tools

    1. Files, cloud storage and Word
    2. Excel formulas and functions
    3. Presentations that work
  11. Unit 11 · Lab 5–6, 9

    Building web pages

    1. HTML page structure
    2. Links, images, lists and tables
    3. Styling with CSS
  12. Unit 12 · Lab 10

    Python basics

    1. Variables, input and output
    2. Decisions and loops in Python
  13. Unit 13 · Lab 11

    JavaScript in the browser

    1. Making pages interactive

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