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14.8 Key points/learning outcomes |
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Understand that there are
different ways of providing software solutions to specialist
applications, e.g. user written, internal development
team/department, external software house to specification.
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Describe the possible
criteria for selection of software solutions to specialist
applications and the place within the corporate strategy.
See the
books page for more
details about the titles listed below
McWeeney - A205 Pages 41 - 42
Mott & Leeming - Chapter 21
Doyle - Chapter 17
Heathcote - Chapter 62
AQA past papers
Past papers. Not as useful as the Psionica database AQA shamefully closed
but...
Practice questions
Past paper practice questions for 14.8 (.rtf file - opens in Word/Writer)
suitable for revision/homework etc. etc.
Past paper answers
Answers to the questions above. This is a password protected .doc file. Sorry but
the password is only available to teachers.
Older Exam Papers
Past papers (pre 2000) not included on the official AQA site from
Colchester VI Form College. These still contain some relevant questions
for this topic. Look for IT05/ICT5 papers.
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Links to general online
resources for 14.8. I'd recommend right clicking links/icons and "Save
Target As..." for anything other than web pages (see key below)
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Software Acquisition and
Testing |
PowerPoint presentation based on
Ch. 62 of the Heathcote book. This version, from Mortimer Wilson,
contains extra speaker's notes for each slide.
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Software
Acquisition |
Very short, two-page, summary of this topic
from the KJS is pretty useful for last minute revision.
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Changing
Software |
Nice little spider diagram thingy from
Kesgrave High summarises some of the problems associated with changing
software in organisations.
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Software
Development |
"The future's bright the future's..."
Another very good (and very orange!) PowerPoint presentation from the
excellent ict-teacher website.
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FatMax page of resources includes stuff on
criteria for selection of software. If AQA can skimp on the
specification I can skimp on the resources!
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Specialist Applications |
Set of brief online notes from Colchester VI
Form College covering the specialist applications bit of the topic. Not
very interesting but then again it's not a very interesting topic!
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Open Source Software |
Cool looking PowerPoint looks at how you can
throw open source into the traditional software acquisition model.
There's also a pretty good case study for specific applications
here
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14.8 Software Development |
Summary notes and questions for this topic from North Chadderton High School.
Contains a couple of past paper questions with detailed answers.
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Software Development and Reliability |
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Online revision notes from Antonine
Education. Based largely on the Heathcote book there are practice
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Key to resources:
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