Academics & Programs

The Software Development Certificate of Proficiency is a challenging certificate for individuals who wish to develop professional oriented programming skills using industry standard programming languages such as JAVA or C#.NET in the least possible time. Students learn to create object oriented applications that access and process data from industry standard databases such as ORACLE or SQL Server. This certificate is particularly suited to students who have completed the Applied Programming Certificate or who have prior programming experience but need to modernize their skills. All courses in this certificate can be fully applied toward the AAS Degree in Information Technology – Software Development Emphasis. Additionally, this certificate can be used as one of the technical disciplines required for the AAS in General Technology.

Note: Certificate students can also take the web courses shown in the AAS degree below.

Note: Description will be changed in Fall 2011 Catalog to include JAVA and Oracle ...

The Software Development Emphasis is a challenging program that prepares motivated students to write computer software to solve business problems using the Microsoft.NET development environment. The primary programming language in this emphasis is Microsoft C#. Students will learn to create both MS Windows Applications and professional MS ASP Web Applications that access and process data from MS SQL Server. The demand and salaries for .NET programmers are high due to the pressing need for industry to streamline business processes and take advantage of the operational efficiencies available with modern information technology. Students new to programming are strongly encouraged to consider the Applied Programming Certificate of Proficiency as a first step before entering this program.

The Applied Programming Certificate of Proficiency is for the student interested in developing basic programming skills to be used in their work as well as for students wishing to continue beyond this program and become professional object oriented programmers. This certificate uses MS Visual Basic as its primary programming language. Upon completion of this certificate, students are able to access data from MS Access databases using Visual Basic. With the web design courses, students will also be able to build attractive web sites. Several courses in this certificate can be applied towards the AAS Degree in Information Technology Software Development Emphasis. Additionally, this certificate can be used as one of the technical disciplines required for the AAS in General Technology.