What you will learn

• The business context and market environment for software development
• How to recognise that there are different methodologies that can be used for software development
• The roles within the software development team
• The structure of software applications and the particular context for the development platform (whether web, mobile, or desktop applications)
• All stages of the software development lifecycle
• Different types of testing
• How to test code
• The role of configuration management and version control systems and how to apply them

What you will learn

• The theory of User Interface (UI) design, why the design phase is so important and the implications and ramifications when effective design is not achieved
• Designing websites using Adobe Xd
• Designing desktop applications using Visual Studio

What you will learn

• Understand Java fundamentals including use of main, performing basic input and output using standard packages, print statements, import and the scanner class
• Data types including byte, char, int, double, short, long, float and boolean
• Constructing code that manipulates strings
• Constructing and evaluating code that creates, iterates and manipulates arrays and array lists
• Constructing and evaluating code that performs parsing, casting and conversion
• Constructing and evaluating arithmetic expressions
• Constructing and evaluating code that uses branching statements such as if, else, else if, switch, nesting logical and relational operators
• Construct and evaluate code what uses loops such as while, for, for each, do while, break and continue, nesting, logical, relational and unary operators
• Construct and evaluate class definitions
• Declare, implement and access data members in a class
• Declare, implement and access methods.
• Instantiate and use class objects in a program
• Troubleshoot syntax errors, logic errors and runtime errors, such as print statement debugging, output from the java command, analysing code for logic errors, console exceptions and evaluating a stack trace
• Implement exception handling including try catch, exception class, exception class types and display exception information