Software development fundamentals

Description

Software development training course description

This three-day MTA Training course helps you prepare for Microsoft Technology Associate Exam 98-361, and build an understanding of these topics: Core programming, Object-Oriented programming, general software development, web applications, desktop applications, and databases. This course leverages the same content as found in the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) for this exam.

What will you learn

• Describe core programming.
• Explain Object Oriented programming.
• Describe general software development.
• Describe Web applications.
• Describe desktop applications.
• Explain how databases work.

Software development training course details

Software development training course contents

• Core programming
• Computer storage and data types

How a computer stores programs and the instructions in computer memory, memory stacks and heaps, memory size requirements for the various data storage types, numeric data and textual data.

• Computer decision structures

Various decision structures used in all computer programming languages; If decision structures; multiple decision structures, such as If…Else and switch/Select Case; reading flowcharts; decision tables; evaluating expressions.

• Handling repetition

For loops, While loops, Do...While loops and recursion.

• Understand error handling

Structured exception handling.

• Object-oriented programming
• Classes

Properties, methods, events and constructors; how to create a class; how to use classes in code.

• Inheritance

Inheriting the functionality of a base class into a derived class.

• Polymorphism

Extending the functionality in a class after inheriting from a base class, overriding methods in the derived class.

• Encapsulation

Creating classes that hide their implementation details while still allowing access to the required functionality through the interface, access modifiers.

• General software development
• Application life cycle management

Phases of application life cycle management, software testing.

• Interpret application specifications

Application specifications, translating them into prototypes, code, select appropriate application type and components.

• Algorithms and data structures

Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists and sorting algorithms; performance implications of various data structures; choosing the right data structure.

• Web applications
• Web page development

HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

• ASP.NET web application development

Page life cycle, event model, state management, client-side versus server-side programming.

• Web hosting

Creating virtual directories and websites, deploying web applications, understanding the role of Internet Information Services.

• Web services

Web services that will be consumed by client applications, accessing web services from a client application, SOAP, WSDL.

• Desktop applications
• Windows apps

UI design guideline categories, characteristics and capabilities of Store Apps, identify gestures.

• Console-based applications

Characteristics and capabilities of console- based applications.

• Windows Services

Characteristics and capabilities of Windows Services.

• Databases
• Relational database management systems

Characteristics and capabilities of database products, database design, ERDs, normalisation concepts.

• Database query methods

SQL, creating and accessing stored procedures, updating and selecting data.

• Database connection methods

Connecting to various types of data stores, such as flat file; XML file; in-memory object; resource optimisation.