40361A: Software Development Fundamentals Course Overview
The '40361A: Software Development Fundamentals Course Overview' by Microsoft equips aspiring developers with essential software engineering skills. This foundational course is vital for beginners, IT professionals, and those seeking to enhance their programming knowledge, enabling them to build robust applications and advance their careers in the rapidly evolving tech industry.
Course outline & what you'll learn
Overview of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Agile vs. Waterfall methodologies
- Introduction to programming concepts
- Understanding data types, variables, and operators
- Control structures: conditionals and loops
- Principles of OOP: Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism
- Classes and objects in programming
- Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
- Version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Importance of testing in software development
- Common testing techniques and strategies
- Debugging practices and tools
- Building a simple application
- User interface design principles
- Introduction to web and mobile application development
- Introduction to databases and SQL
- Basic database operations: Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD)
- Code readability and maintainability
- Documentation and comments
- Collaboration and working in teams
- Developing a project from concept to implementation
- Applying learned skills to real-world scenarios
- Presentation of project outcomes and lessons learned
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