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In this course, students learn about programming and focus on managing the software development process. Students interested in pursuing a career in this industry must understand how to manage a development team and have a background in programming. This course will review Visual Basic .NET and prepare those interested in becoming managers with skills to prepare them for handling development projects.

This course introduces fundamental concepts in the languages of computer programming. It includes the study of the history of programming languages and analysis. Students will also look at programming specifications. Students will explore problem-solving techniques and programming language syntax, design and semantics.

Course Objectives

• By the end of this course, students will recognize basic programming concepts, execute a simple program within an integrated development environment and identify programming best practices.
• They will be able to write a simple program in Visual Basic, develop algorithms that form the basis for programs and create procedures and functions using the program. Participants will also be able to use Visual Basic mathematical functions, create multidimensional arrays, format strings, dates, and times and recognize how to debug a program and handle programming errors.