Software Engineering Technician

Description: This course introduces students to the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills needed for academic and workplace success. Students will analyse a variety of texts and apply the steps of planning, writing, and revising to produce writing that meets the expectations of selected audiences and purposes. The course prepares students for college-level writing tasks, research, and documentation by asking them to produce clear, informed, and purposeful documents relevant to both academic and professional contexts.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.

• Hours: 1
• Credits: 0
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: This course will provide the student with the knowledge to conduct meaningful dialogue with the network specialists who design, install and maintain the network within their organization. The student will be introduced to broad networking concepts including protocols, topologies, transmission media and security, using hands-on examples of networking issues.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

The purpose of the course is to provide students with a sound mathematical foundation for logical reasoning and problem solving. The course stresses computer and business applications using equations, logic, sets, vectors, and data structures. The course includes applications such as cost-volume-profit analysis. The course is designed for IT students to help them translate everyday real world scenarios into mathematical concepts they can solve with computer systems and applications.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

In this course, students develop the skills needed to build static web sites. This includes facility with coding HTML, XHTML, and CSS, as well as the insertion of graphics and video into web sites.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description:

Developing software applications depends on a strong foundation in programming concepts and logic. In order to develop programs that solve business problems, the student will use the programming concepts of data types, looping, decision making, modifying strings and arrays. Particular attention will be paid to problem solving techniques using flowcharting to design the logic of the program. The student will be introduced to techniques of desk checking, testing and debugging.

• Hours: 84
• Credits: 6
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description:

This course introduces the fundamentals of designing database relationships across entities, building schemas, and introductory SQL queries for data retrieval and modification.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.