Course number: 077 701

Software version number: 6

Course length: 1 day

Prerequisites: Windows 95/98/2000/XP: Introduction.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities and independent lab activities.

Benefits: Students will learn general programming concepts that provide a basis for programming in many different languages.

Target student: The target student is interested in learning general programming concepts. This course provides a foundation for students desiring to go on and learn one or more programming languages.

What’s next: Any of Element K's introductory courses on programming languages would be a good course to take after this one. For example, students wishing to learn more about Visual Basic programming could take Visual Basic 6.0: Introduction (Windows 95).

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe features and benefits of prevalent programming languages, and describe the general phases of software development, including: planning, coding, compiling, linking, and debugging.
• Define the following terms related to object-oriented programming: objects, encapsulation, classes, instantiation, properties, methods, and events.
• Identify and describe the purpose of literals, operators, and functions.
• Use variables and constants to write programs that perform calculations.
• Explain the purpose and general functionality provided by conditional statements, relational operators, and logical operators.
• Explain the purpose and general functionality provided by Do While and For Next loops.
• Explain the benefits of dividing large programming tasks into smaller tasks.
• Identify the scope of variables within a given program.