SW development essentials

What is software, the SW development process, reasons to deal with it, essential requirements for SW products, knowledge of SW development.

The core job of a developer

Typical workload of a developer, learning a developer’s best practices, working with source files and tools for sharing and managing the source code, git flow, introduction of useable tools (development environment, source code management).

SW development methodologies

How to manage a project – what is a method and methodology, what it typically consists of, how a company uses it. The historical context of the view of methods.

Traditional SW development methods

The basic introduction of the traditional SW development methods, roles and responsibilities, advantages and disadvantages.

Agile SW development methods

The basic introduction of the agile SW development methods, roles and responsibilities, pros and cons.

Analysis and draft

What communicating with a customer means, types of requirements and ways of their capture, requirement analysis and functionality proposal, roles participating in requirement, analysis and draft management, the use-case principle, using CASE tools.

Testing and documentation

Verification and validation principles, the subject of testing, types of documentation, roles participating in SW testing and documentation keeping, tools for supporting documentation keeping and SW testing.

Jackson structured programming

Principles of Jackson structured programming, selction, sequence, iteration, notation, data diagrams.

Essential areas of corporate IT

The role of IT in a business, IT decomposition, basic processes.

IS classification according to its use

Basic types of information systems according to their specialization or goal (CRM, ERP, CMS, DMS, SCM, BI, a primary system etc.).

IS classification according to its delivery

Basic types of information systems according to the form of their delivery (on-premise vs XAAS).

IS integration and developmen

The role of the integration and development process in a company, parts and phases of software development, IS assignment, staging, roles and responsibilities.

IS operation and support

The role of the process of operation, primary and secondary IS support, documentation, regular activities, SLA, roles and responsibilities.

Economic aspects of IT in a business

Tools for assessing the return on investment in IS, business case, ways of calculating the benefits of the investment in IS.

Introduction to programming and algorithm development

What is programming, history, types of programming languages, what is algorithm, the command line, development environment.

Number representation in a computer

Number representation in a computer and related issues.

JavaScript

Essential principles and JavaScript syntax. ECMAScript and its versions. Asynchronousness of JavaScript.

NodeJS and uuAppServer

Introducing the NodeJS run environment, basic orientation in the uuAppServer NodeJS workspace.

Fundamental work with variables and data types

What is a variable, variable types and related operations, strings, conversions.

Conditional code processing

Basic and advanced work with conditions.

Cycles

Iterations and various types of cycles, iterations with and without an iteration variable, cycle insertion, iteration influencing with special examples and the generality of a cycle.

The data structure of a field

The definition of a field and iterations by means of its elements, iterations by means of the string elements, relevant inserted fields and iterations by means of such a structure.

Essential algorithms over container types

The associative field data structure and the relevant iterations and set, inserted containers, basic examples over containers.

Introduction to functional programming

Functions, the DRY principle, function parameters, the return value, the range of validity of variables.

Introduction to IS architecture

Historical development, architecture layers, SW architecture, types of clients, a 3-layer architecture, typical functionalities of application servers, the uuApp referential architecture.

The principles of web app operation and basic terminology

Network communication fundamentals, a website vs. a web app, a single page application, types of web apps.