Computer Science

Topics (13)

• 1
  Programming Fundamentals
• 2
  Data Structures & Algorithms
• 3
  Operating Systems
• 4
  Database Systems
• 5
  Computer Networks
• 6
  Software Engineering
• 7
  Artificial Intelligence & ML
• 8
  Web Technologies
• 9
  Introduction to Computing

  History of computing, hardware/software components, number systems, information security, computer crimes, IEEE/ACM disciplines.

• 10
  Object Oriented Paradigm

  Classes, inheritance, polymorphism, operator overloading, STL, file streams, exception handling.

• 11
  Compiler Construction

  Lexical and syntax analysis, LL(k)/LR(k), parsing, semantic analysis, code generation and optimization.

• 12
  Computer Organization & Architecture

  CISC vs RISC, pipelining, cache and memory hierarchy, instruction-level parallelism, multi-core systems.

• 13
  Digital Image Processing

  Sampling and quantization, transformations, enhancement, color models, segmentation, compression.

The reading list straight from FPSC's revised Computer Science syllabus. Build your core preparation around these texts — examiner-favoured references that questions are routinely drawn from.

1. 1

   C++ How to Program

   Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel

2. 2

   Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

   Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman

3. 3

   Operating System Concepts

   Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne

4. 4

   Operating Systems

   William Stallings

5. 5

   Computer Organization & Architecture

   William Stallings

6. 6

   Computer System Architecture

   M. Morris Mano

7. 7

   Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface

   David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy

8. 8

   Software Engineering

   Ian Sommerville

9. 9

   Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

   Roger S. Pressman

10. 10

    Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++

    Mark Allen Weiss

11. 11

    Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach

    James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross

12. 12

    Data and Computer Communications

    William Stallings

13. 13

    Computer Networks

    Andrew Tanenbaum

14. 14

    Fundamentals of Database Systems

    Ramez Elmasri and S.B. Navathe

15. 15

    Database Systems Concepts

    Silberschatz, Korth, Sudarshan

16. 16

    Web Services: Principles and Technology

    Michael Papazoglou

17. 17

    Electronic Commerce: The Second Wave

    Gary P. Schneider

18. 18

    Electronic Commerce — A Managerial Perspective

    Turban, Lee, King, Chung

19. 19

    Web Engineering

    Kappel, Proll, Reich & Retschitzegger

20. 20

    Styling Web Pages with CSS

    Tom Negrino and Dori Smith

21. 21

    PHP: The Good Parts

    Peter B. MacIntyre

22. 22

    Learn JavaScript

    Chuck Easttom

23. 23

    ADTs, Data Structures, and Problem Solving with C++

    Larry R. Nyhoff

24. 24

    Digital Image Processing

    Gonzalez and Woods