A-level Computing/CIE/Further Problem Solving and Programming skills/Further programming

Further Programming CIE/Further_Problem_Solving_and_Programming_skills/Algorithm_design_methods CIE/Further_Problem_Solving_and_Programming_skills/Software_development Algorithm Design Methods Software Development Specification link Programming paradigms show understanding of what is meant by a programming paradigm show understanding of the characteristics of a number of programming paradigms (low-level, imperative, object-oriented, declarative) imperative programming – see details in Section 2.3 low-level programming – demonstrate an ability to write low-level code that uses various address modes: immediate, direct, indirect, indexed and relative (see Section 1.4.3 and Section 3.6.2) object-oriented programming (OOP) – demonstrate an ability to solve a problem by designing appropriate classes demonstrate an ability to write code that demonstrates the use of classes, inheritance, polymorphism and containment (aggregation) declarative programming demonstrate an ability to solve a problem by writing appropriate facts and rules based on supplied information demonstrate an ability to write code that can satisfy a goal using facts and rules File processing write code to define a record structure write code to perform file-processing operations: open or close a file; read or write a record to a file use pseudocode for random file handling: OPENFILE <filename> FOR RANDOM SEEK <address> // get a pointer to the disk address for the record GETRECORD <filename>,<identifier> PUTRECORD <filename>,<identifier> write code to perform file-processing operations on serial, sequential and random files Exception handling show understanding of an exception and the importance of exception handling show understanding of when it is appropriate to use exception handling write code to use exception handling in practical programming Use of development tools/programming environments describe features in editors that benefit programming know when to use compilers and interpreters describe facilities available in debuggers and how and when they should be deployed show understanding of a range of software development methodologies: waterfall, RapidApplication Development (RAD), Agile