Become a Programmer: Foundations

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Programming Foundations: Fundamentals
-Prepare to learn the fundamental concepts, practices, and terminology of programming in this introductory course.

Course 2: Programming Foundations: Beyond the Fundamentals
-Dive deeper into the foundational concepts, practices, and terminology of programming. Learn how to work with collections, use external code, find and fix bugs, and more.

Course 3: Programming Foundations: Real-World Examples
-Learn how to connect programming theory to practice. Learn about basic programming concepts such as functions, variables, and loops by comparing them to real-life scenarios.

Course 4: Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design
-Good software starts with great design. Get a fun and fresh introduction to object-oriented design and analysis—from defining requirements to diagramming classes.

Course 5: Programming Foundations: Algorithms
-Algorithms are the universal building blocks of programming. Learn the most popular and useful programming algorithms for searching and sorting data, counting values, and more.

Course 6: Programming Foundations: Design Patterns
-Learn about key object-oriented design patterns (including the Observer, Decorator, and Factory patterns) that make your development process faster and easier.

Course 7: Programming Foundations: Data Structures
-Learn about programming with data structures. Discover how to store, organize, and access data using data structures such as arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, and hash tables.

Course 8: Programming Foundations: Databases
-Learn the fundamentals of database programming. Find out how to build a database, define relationships, and write queries.

Course 9: Programming Foundations: APIs and Web Services
-Learn all about web services—the standard method of communicating between applications and across the web—and see how to build them using several popular technologies.

Course 10: Programming Foundations: Web Security
-Learn about the most important security concerns when developing websites, and what you can do to keep your servers, software, and data safe from harm.

Course 11: Programming Foundations: Test-Driven Development
-Improve your software quality and delivery speed. Learn how to adopt a test-driven development process to build testing into your daily routine.

Course 12: Programming Foundations: Software Testing/QA
-Learn how to incorporate different kinds of software testing into your development cycle to help your team meet quality goals with every release.

Course 13: Programming Foundations: Secure Coding
-Learn how to incorporate security into the software development life cycle. Add secure coding practices to agile processes to protect data and prevent recurring flaws.

Course 14: Programming Foundations: Fuzzy Logic
-Learn about fuzzy logic-a form of logic used in AI, which helps computers handle partial truths and more closely approximate human reasoning.