Course Description

This is an accelerated learning programme - learn a new skill in 2 weeks. 

Essential knowledge and skills is delivered over 5 lessons and 10 hours of learning.  

By completing this course, you earn 5 credits towards completing a Certificate for Direct Programming (15 credits).

Overview

  • Compete studying the online topics.
  • Complete the end-of-course mock test.
  • Optional: You can request for certification by SOHO


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Course Curriculum

  • 1

    CFC 2120 Basic Computing Concepts

    • Welcome!

    • Module Learning Objectives

    • Topics
  • 2

    Principles of Programming - Part 1

    • Learning Objectives

    • Vocabulary

    • What is Algorithm?

    • Programming is a process of problem-solving

    • What is Programming?

    • Pseudocode

    • Algorithm Discovery

    • What is Compiling?

    • What is Interpreting?

    • Virtual memory and paging

    • How do you start programming?

    • How to draw a flowchart?

    • Translate into programming language

    • Modular programming

    • Test the programme to fix any bugs

    • Software Testing Tutorial
  • 3

    Principles of Programming - Part 2

    • Structured programming

    • Object-Oriented Design Methodology

    • Computer Example

    • Object Oriented Program

    • Documentation

    • Defensive coding

    • What to check for
  • 4

    System Analysis and Design

    • Learning Objectives

    • Software Process

    • Component-based software engineering

    • Process Iteration

    • Process Stages

    • Object-Oriented (O-O) analysis

    • Data Flow Modelling (DFM)

    • Test Process

    • Software Validation

    • System User Issues for Output Design

    • Input Methods

    • Internal Controls for Inputs

    • User Interface Design
  • 5

    Introduction to SQL AND RDBMS

    • Learning Objectives

    • FLAT FILES

    • DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

    • QUERY LANGUAGES - SQL

    • VISUALIZING SQL

    • TRANSACTIONS

    • Constraints

    • ClearOut

    • Restock

    • Threats to data integrity

    • System Crash

    • Concurrency
  • 6

    Data Structures and Algorithm

    • Learning Objectives

    • Video Introduction to Data Structures

    • Vocabulary

    • Data abstraction (1/4)

    • Data abstraction (2/4)

    • Data abstraction (3/4)

    • Data abstraction (4/4)

    • Abstract Data Types

    • What is Data Structure?

    • Commonly Used Data Structures

    • Data Structure

    • List and Arrays

    • Set

    • Functions of Data Structures
  • 7

    ALGORITHMS

    • Learning Objectives

    • Algorithms

    • SEARCHING

    • Algorithm Strategies

    • Symbolic languages

    • Special languages

    • What are Coding Standards

    • Prime Directive

    • Ambler’s Law of Standards

    • Good Coding Style

    • Three Rules

    • References