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IB Diploma Computer Science

Welcome to my teaching notes for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Computer Science course.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer… because it teaches you how to think. - Steve Jobs

Units & key resources

• Unit 1: Systems design
• Unit 2: Computer architecture
• Unit 3: Networks
• Unit 4: Computational thinking, problem solving, & programming
• Unit D1-3: Object orientated programming: Concepts, features & programming
• Unit 5 & D4: Abstract data structures (high level only)
• Unit 6: Resource management (high level only)
• Unit 7: Control systems (high level only)
• Internal assessment (pdf version)
• Case study (high level only)
• Extended essay (optional)

Programming resources

• Programming problems to solve
• Repl.it auto graded practice for Java (I am the registered teacher for this so I will get notified of and can monitor your progress)
• CodingBat for Java

IB course documents

• IB Notation for pseudocode (exam version)
• IB Notation for pseudocode (additional detail)
• IB Java Exam Tool Subset (JETS) (previous syllabus but still very relevant)
• IB Subject guide (available to STC students only)

IB assessment outline

Examination	Standard level	High level
Exam 1: Short answer & structured scenarios. Units 1-7.	45%, 1h30	40%, 2h10
Exam 2: Object orientated programming. Units D1-D4.	25%, 1h00	20%, 1h20
Exam 3: Case study (HL only)	n/a	20%, 1h00
Internal assessment: Solution	30%, 30h	20%, 30h
Internal assessment: Group 4 project	0%, 10h	0%, 10h

Other IB teacher websites

Other IB CS teacher websites. Feel free to check them out!

• Chris Coetzee, Dartford Grammar School, UK
• Michael Brooke, St Julian’s School
• Bill MacKenty, American School of Warsaw
• Bill MacKenty, second site?
• Robert Griffiths, Colegio Gran Bretaña, Bogotá
• Wikibooks, various authors

Other online computer science resources

Online programming courses & lectures

• Video lectures from various universities highly recommended and comprehensive
• edX: Introduction to Java Programming – Part 1 (25 hours)
• coursera: Object Oriented Programming in Java Specialization (13 hours for course 1, 24 hours for course 2, 25 hours for course 3, don’t worry about course 4)

Project ideas

• “I Need Practice Programming”: 49 Ideas for Game Clones to Code
• Code Abbey (213 problems)
• Mega Project List (110 problems)
• Daily programmer challenge
• Coding Bat introductory problems (Java and Python)

Non-Java programming resources

• Repl.it auto graded practice for Python (I am the registered teacher for this so I will get notified of and can monitor your progress)
• CodingBat for Javascript
• CodingBat for Python

If you come across any other site worth adding to the list, please let me know!