One or two year program, two or three hours per day

Prerequisite:  1 year of college prep Algebra and Keyboarding

Related College or Technical School Majors:  Programming, Systems Analyst, Web Page Design

Job Opportunities:  Web page designer, Junior programmer                                       

In today’s business world there is a shortage of people trained to develop custom software programs, to maintain existing programs, and to develop and maintain web sites.  This course is designed to prepare students to take on these roles.  The class offers curriculum for a beginner as well as a student with background in software or web development.  Each student will learn how to analyze a business situation and develop programs to address this situation using up-to-date software and languages.

A sample of first year topics/activities:

• Computer concepts—understand the vocabulary of data processing

• Visual Basic.NET

• HTML — tags and structure of good websites

• Java programming

• Adobe products — GoLive, Livemotion, Illustrator, Photoshop

A sample of second year topics/activities:

• More in-depth Java programming

• ASP programming

• Scripting Languages — Java Script and VB script

• C++

• Advanced Visual Basic.NET — equivalent to a semester of college course

Supply cost to student:  Less than $20