Your Coursebook and Other Resources
Wolsey Hall offers a unique model of offline and online resources to our homeschooling students – a model which we have developed based on our many years’ experience of offering homeschooling courses.
All the files required for your course are uploaded onto our Learning Management System, Canvas, and your coursebook will be sent out to you.
Coursebook
Each subject specialist team carefully selects the best coursebook from which you will study. The coursebook for your Computer Science course is:
- Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Computer Science Coursebook with Digital Access by Sarah Lawrey & Victoria Ellis (CUP, 2nd edition, 2021); ISBN: 9781108915144
The coursebook provides coverage of the full Cambridge IGCSE syllabus for examination entry from 2023. Each chapter explains facts and concepts and uses real-world contexts to bring topics to life. It has a skills focus feature containing worked examples and questions to develop your mathematical, computational and programming skills plus a programming tasks feature to build your problem-solving skills. Questions and exam-style questions in every chapter help you to consolidate your understanding.
Inside the front cover of the coursebook you will find a panel which you can scratch off with a coin or similar. This will reveal a unique code which will give you up to two years of access to the digital version of the book at the Cambridge website. Registering for a student account on Cambridge GO Links to an external site., using this unique code, will enable you to access additional worksheets plus the answers to these and also the coursebook exam-style questions.
Throughout the course, we recommend that you try all the questions in the coursebook – the Programme of Study will highlight which pages you should read for each module and page references are also provided in each topic for specific content.
Finally, Chapter 11 of the coursebook is a ‘bonus’ chapter consisting of programming scenario practice. This is optional, but recommended, especially if you feel you need to develop your programming – it does not relate to a module on the course (Module Eleven is past/sample papers), and there is no assignment to be completed.
Other resources
In addition to your coursebook, your tutors have sourced lots of interesting and fun resources to support your learning. The links to these resources are clearly indicated in each module and you should make use of these alongside your coursebook work to ensure that you get the very best out of your course.
Programming and Python
Part of your course involves some practical work in programming. The language we shall be using on this course is called Python, which can be accessed on TLJH and downloaded for free.
Logging in to TLJH
You can access the login page at [not available with sample course]
Watch the video below on Logging in to TLJH
WATCH – Logging in to TLJH Links to an external site.
Using TLJH
You will be able to complete both your Python programming and your website design on this site.
Firstly, watch this video on Making Folders in TLJH.
WATCH – Making Folders in TLJH (YouTube) Links to an external site.
Now watch this video on Using Python in TLJH
WATCH – Using Python in TLJH (YouTube) Links to an external site.
If you have previously used replit.com for programming, you can import from Replit to TLJH. Watch the video below to show you how.
WATCH – Importing from Replit (YouTube) Links to an external site.
This works the same for Python files, or any websites you may have created in previous courses.
Downloading Python
The best location to download it is from the link below. This takes you to a download page for Windows, but there are links there for other operating systems. It is suggested that you download the most up to date version of Python 3 – at time of writing, this is version 3.13, but this will of course change
DOWNLOAD - Python: The Latest Version (Python) Links to an external site.
The TLJH website allows you to complete your programming online with no need to install anything. Your tutors can easily access your work too.