Software Development Essentials, CR

This certificate expands students’ knowledge of modular software development. Students will develop object-oriented programming skills and a solid foundation for further advanced studies in software development.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Identify major elements in the software development life cycle;
2. Gather user requirements, convert them into a logical design, and implement them into a software-based solution;
3. Document a system development project with user requirements, programming requirements and other documentation;
4. Apply the concept of functional decomposition to program design;
5. Compare and contrast the features and benefits of procedural and object oriented programming paradigms;
6. Design and implement appropriate user interface.