Computer Programming Certificate of Achievement

Upon successful completion of the Computer Programming Certificate, the student demonstrates skills, knowledge, and training for employment as a programmer or programmer trainee and to logically solve problems in at least two programming languages; and for an AA degree and/or for transfer to a four-year college.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate understanding of how the different parts of a computer performs by diagnosing a problem and also perform the necessary diagnostic task.
2. Demonstrate the skills to plan, create, test, and debug computer programs using procedural programming or Object-Oriented Programming techniques that may involve using of basic data structures such as stacks and queues to solve basic to intermediate problems.
3. Demonstrate understanding of basic networking concepts and ability to utilize that knowledge to configure a basic networking device and solve basic network security problems.
4. Demonstrate the skills to use application software such as word processing, spreadsheet processing programs, and database management system.
5. Demonstrate understanding of basic Operating System concepts and ability to utilize that knowledge to setup the Operating System of a computer system.