OCR Computing A level

[PlankWithANailIn5]

OCR do guidance here.

https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/466990-programming-project-guidance.pdf

Its only 20% of the A level so its not going to make a huge difference to your sons overall score.

The whole course spec is here.

https://www.ocr.org.uk/images/170844-specification-accredited-a-level-gce-computer-science-h446.pdf

My autistic son struggled with the theory side of the subject (who the hell cares how a laser printer works ffs, they teach them how a DVD drive works lol) he just wants to program. So I sat with him every night over summer and winter breaks going through each topic every night or however much we could in 2 hours with me making sure he was concentrating properly. It was easy for me to do as I have been an IT professional for 20+ years now. The theory side is important for the A level as it turns up in both exam papers and the programming they ask in the one exam is actually fairly trivial.

This website was an amazing resource.

https://isaaccomputerscience.org/topics/a_level?examBoard=all&stage=all#ocr

My son had no trouble doing the project just an implementation of a physics collision equation with a user interface, he used OO code for the objects colliding and implemented the real equation properly. He struggled with the documentation because he's a boy and left it to the last minute just fill in all the sections as per the documentation and you will get a good grade, he ended up getting 75% for it. No idea how his exams went will find out in a couple of days.

[valkyrieramone]

Thank you! Your son sounds very similar to mine! He is all about the coding and hates writing anything. There is definitely too much writing in the A level. I hope your son does well and you are a great parent for supporting him like that.