Introduction To Programming

In this 5-day course, students will learn the basics of computer programming through the use of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 and the Visual C# and Visual Basic programming languages. The course assumes no prior programming experience and introduces the concepts needed to progress to the intermediate courses on programming, Programming in C#.

The focus will be on core programming concepts such as computer storage, data types, decision structures, and repetition by using loops. The course also covers an introduction to object-oriented programming covering classes, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Coverage is also included around exception handling, application security, performance, and memory management.

Course Objectives

• Explain core programming fundamentals such as computer storage and processing.

• Explain computer number systems such as binary.

• Create and use variables and constants in programs.

• Explain how to create and use functions in a program.

• Create and use decisions structures in a computer program.

• Create and use repetition (loops) in a computer program.

• Explain pseudocode and its role in programming.

• Explain the basic computer data structures such as arrays, lists, stacks, and queues.

• Implement object-oriented programming concepts.

• Create and use classes in a computer program.

• Implement encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

• Describe the base class library (BCL) in the .NET Framework.

• Explain the application security concepts.

• Implement simple I/O in a computer program.

• Identify application errors and explain how to debug an application and handle errors.

• Identify the performance considerations for applications.