LCCS Summer Crash Course 2024
LCCS Summer Crash Course 2024
9 Day Leaving Cert Computer Science crash-course. Open to students sitting the leaving cert in 2025 or 2026.
🗓 9 Day Course: Tuesday, June 4th to Friday, June 14th
(No class on Sat, Sun and Mon June 3rd*)
⏰10am-12pm daily
A PC/Mac is required for this course, along with a mic and webcam (integrated pc webcam is fine)
*Bank Holiday Monday
Please note: This is an online crash course, delivered by our senior tutors via Zoom. Tutors will be at hand to answer any questions students have during class.
Topics to be covered:
Introduction to Python programming (for students who have not yet started the leaving cert course)
Advanced Python programming, including recursive functions (for students who have completed the first year of the leaving cert course)
Sorting algorithms
Data and databases
Binary and hexadecimal arithmetic and conversions
Logic gates and boolean logic
Big O notation (algorithmic complexity)
Computers and society
Software design process
Exam paper/sample paper revision
Revision Notes