Technical terms and definitions for the A Level Computer Science course. Based on AQA and BCS glossaries.
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ABSTRACTION
AGGREGATION
AJAX
ALGORITHM
APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API)
ASSOCIATION
ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF F
ASYNCHRONOUS SERIAL DATA TRANSMISSION
ATTRIBUTE
AUTOMATION
BACKUS-NAUR FORM, (BNF)
BANDWIDTH
BASE CASE
BASEBAND SYSTEM
BASIC OPERATION
BAUD RATE
BEHAVIOURS
BEHAVIOURS
BIT RATE
BROADBAND
BUBBLE SORT
CIPHER TEXT
CIRCULAR QUEUE
CLASS DEFINITION
CLIENT
CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM
CLOSED PATH/CIRCUIT
COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL
COMPLEXITY OF A PROBLEM
COMPOSITE KEY
COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
CONCEPTUAL MODEL
CRYPTANALYSIS
CRYPTOGRAPHY
CYCLE
DATA MODEL
DATA TRANSMISSION
DATABASE
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
DECRYPTION
DEGREE (OF A VERTEX)
DEGREE OF RELATIONSHIP
DETERMINISTIC FINITE STATE MACHINE (FSM)
DIRECTED GRAPH
DYNAMIC ALLOCATION
DYNAMIC DATA STRUCTURE
DYNAMIC WEB PAGE CONTENT
EMBEDDED COMPUTER SYSTEM
ENCAPSULATION
ENCRYPTION
ENTITY
EVALUATION
EXPLORER'S PROBLEM
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH
EXPONENTIAL TIME ALGORITHM
FEASIBILITY STUDY
FINITE STATE AUTOMATION
FINITE STATE MACHINE (FSM)
FLOATING POINT NOTATION
FOREIGN KEY
GATEWAY
GENERAL CASE
GRAPH
HALTING PROBLEM
HALTING STATE
HANDSHAKING PROTOCOL
HEURISTIC
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
INHERITANCE
INSTANTIATION
INTERNET
INTERPRETER
INTRACTABLE
LABELLED OR WEIGHTED GRAPH
LINEAR QUEUE
LINEAR SEARCH
LINEAR TIME ALGORITHM
LIST
MAINTAINABILITY OF SOFTWARE
MAINTENANCE
MEALY MACHINE
MODEL
NEIGHBOURS
NON-COMPUTABLE
NORMALISATION (DB)
NORMALISED ENTITIES
NULL POINTER
OBJECT
OPERATING SYSTEM ROLE
ORDER OF COMPLEXITY
OVERFLOW
PARALLEL DATA TRANSMISSION
PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK
PHARMING
PHISHING
PLAIN TEXT
POINTER
POINTER TYPE
POLYMORPHISM
POLYNOMIAL GROWTH
POLYNOMIAL TIME ALGORITHM
PRECISION
PRIMARY KEY
PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSALITY
PRIORITY QUEUE
PROTOTYPE
PROTOTYPING
PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBERS
QUEUE
RECURSIVE DEFINITION
RECURSIVE ROUTINE
REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY
REGULAR EXPRESSION
REGULAR LANGUAGE
RELATION
RELATIONAL DATABASE
RELATIONSHIP
RELATIVE ERROR
ROBUST CODE
ROOTED TREE
ROUTER
WORM
WIRELESS NETWORK
WIFI
WEB SERVICES
WEB SERVER EXTENSION
WEB 2.0
VOLUMETRICS
VIRUS (COMPUTER)
VIRTUAL MACHINE
USABILITY
UNIVERSAL TM, UTM
UNDERFLOW
UNDECIDABLE
TURING MACHINE (TM)
TUPLE
TROJAN
TREE
TRAVELLER’S PROBLEM
TRANSITION TABLE
TRANSITION FUNCTION
TRACTABLE
TOPOLOGY (NETWORKS)
TIME-COMPLEXITY (OF AN ALGORITHM)
THIN-CLIENT NETWORK
SYSTEM SOFTWARE
STATIC DATA STRUCTURE
STATE TRANSITION DIAGRAM
STAND-ALONE COMPUTER
STACK FRAME
STACK
SPACE-COMPLEXITY
(OF AN ALGORITHM)
SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS)
SIMPLE GRAPH
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS
SERVER
SERIAL DATA TRANSMISSION
Big Data: Volume
Big Data: velocity
Big Data: variety
Register
Program Counter (PC)
Memory Address Register (MAR)
Memory Buffer Register (MBR)
AKA Memory Data Register (MDR)
Current Instruction Register (CIR)
Accumulator(ACC)
