Supporting your child with Computing Science can seem daunting as technology moves and changes so quickly.

However, now more then ever there are resources available to support learning of this subject area online and for free.

The following is a list of useful sites and the areas of the course they can support.

SQA Computing Science – The Scottish Qualification Authority main page for Computing Science. The main menu will allow you to browse by level.

National 5 Course Specification Document – Overview and content document for the N5 course including appendices and examples.

Higher Course Specification Document – Overview and content document for the N5 course including appendices and examples.

w3schools – A site run by the World Wide Web Consortium, the organisation responsible for many of the open standards used in modern web development. Contains tutorials and reference material covering HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Khan Academy – A comprehensive collection of tutorials covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL.