Software Systems Development study guides

A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Software Systems Development guide to the A2 1 Systems Approaches and Database Concepts unit. Covers the systems development lifecycle, development methodologies and feasibility, system modelling with DFDs and UML, relational database concepts, entity relationship modelling and normalisation, and SQL.

A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Software Systems Development guide to the A2 2 Implementing Solutions unit. Covers the practical project end to end: analysis and requirements, design, implementation, testing with normal, boundary and erroneous data, documentation and evaluation against the original requirements, and how the rest of the course is applied.

A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Software Systems Development guide to the AS 1 Introduction to Object Oriented Development unit. Covers classes and objects, the four pillars of object orientation, data types and operators, control structures, arrays, methods and parameters, and validation and testing, with the definitions and examples CCEA examines.

A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Software Systems Development guide to the AS 2 Event Driven Programming unit. Covers the event driven paradigm, forms and GUI controls with HCI principles, file handling and persistence, data structures with searching and sorting, and testing, debugging and exception handling for robust applications.