Essential Maths Skills for AS/A Level Computer Science

If you struggle with binary multiplication, or Big O Notation, this is the book for you. This textbook companion will help improve your essential maths skills for computer science, whichever awarding body specification you're following. You can use it throughout your course, whenever you feel you need some extra help. - Develop your understanding of both maths and computer science with all worked examples and questions within a computer science context - Improve your confidence with a step-by-step approach to every maths skill - Measure your progress with guided and non-guided questions to see how you're improving - Understand where you're going wrong with full worked solutions to every question - Feel confident in expert guidance from experienced teachers and examiners Victoria Ellis and Gavin Craddock, reviewed by Dr Kathleen Maitland, Senior Lecturer in Computing and Director of the SAS Student Academy at Birmingham City University

Unlike many textbooks which just gives the answers to exercises at the back of the book, the guided questions takes students through the logic (thought process) of finding the answer or solution to a problem: it is like having the tutor standing beside you explaining each concept. -- Dr Kathleen Maitland, Senior Lecturer in Computing * Ceri Jenkins * A great book to help deliver the maths elements of the new Computing Science specifications - it works well alongside the other resources from Hodder. -- Mrs Elizabeth McCue