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The Programming Foundations module equips learners, regardless of their coding experience, with essential knowledge and skills to start their coding journey. This module provides a comprehensive understanding of programming concepts and techniques, encompassing programming languages, paradigms, and program execution. By establishing a solid foundation in programming principles and terminology, learners can grasp and analyze code effectively. By engaging in practical exercises and hands-on activities, learners enhance their problem-solving and critical thinking abilities, thereby improving their coding proficiency and enabling them to produce efficient and well-structured code.
The module project provides learners with an opportunity to demonstrate their skills into practice by constructing software components. This project serves as a platform for demonstrating their competence in analyzing technical requirements and converting them into resilient designs. Leveraging their expertise in programming paradigms and languages, learners can implement software components based on the technical design. Additionally, they acquire the capability to ensure software quality through the utilization of diverse testing methods. In conclusion, learners acquire the capacity to produce well-structured code, apply object-oriented programming principles, conduct comprehensive testing, and proficiently document their code, establishing a solid foundation for their future programming ventures.
What You'll Learn
This course is designed to target the audience who would like to gain programming skills. Duration of this course is 40.5 hours.
This course comprises of following Instructional Units
- Introduction to Programming
- Programming Fundamentals – Part 1
- Programming Fundamentals – Part 2
- Object Oriented Programming
- Testing & Documentation
Learning Outcomes -Knowledge
By the end of this module, learners will be able to:
- Explain core programming concepts, including variables, data types, control structures, and functions.
- Describe different programming paradigms, such as procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming.
- Understand program execution flow, debugging techniques, and error-handling mechanisms.
- Identify key principles of object-oriented programming, including encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
- Recognize the significance of software testing, documentation, and best coding practices in software development.
Learning Outcomes- Skills
By the end of this module, learners will be able to:
- Write and analyze code using fundamental programming constructs.
- Develop modular and well-structured software components based on programming principles.
- Apply object-oriented programming techniques to design and implement software solutions.
- Perform unit testing and debugging to validate code functionality and ensure quality.
- Document software code effectively, following industry standards and best practices.
Ability Statement
By completing this module, learners will have the ability to design, develop, test, and document well-structured software components that adhere to programming best practices and meet business requirements.
Minimum Entry Requirement
Academic Qualification – Minimum one credit in Nitec in STEM
Knowledge & Skill requirement: Logical thinking skills