Coding Practices - Certificate

This course will teach you to:

• Understand the stages of the software development lifecycle, software methodologies and how working as a team contributes to effective software delivery
• Understand the purpose and use of coding standards, coding principles and practices and coding design processes
• Write and debug interpreted and compiled code distinguishing the different coding solutions
• Fix bugs using appropriate techniques and reflect on how bugs can be prevented
• Understand deployment, configuration management and version control systems.

Units include:

• Coding requirements and planning
• Understand coding design
• Implementation of coding
• Software testing
• Understand deployment, maintenance and configuration management

You must:

• Be over 19
• Have 4 GCSEs at grade 9-4 (A*-C), including English and Maths, OR
• a Level 2 qualification (Merit or Distinction) in a related subject.

Internally assessed and externally quality-assured portfolio of evidence.

You can move on to:

• Further study
• Employment
• Apprenticeship

This course will be taught on Tuesday and Thursdays at 5.30pm-8.30pm