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Software Development & Support

Application Development & Support

Year Up's Application Development & Support curriculum provides students with basic skills in programming, application/web development, databases, and software development fundamentals. Students are exposed to problem solving techniques such as algorithms, flow-charts, and decision trees; concepts and processes such as version control, Agile development, software development roles and environments, introductory programming, object oriented concepts, development of simple real-world applications, relational database terminology, database design tools; and techniques to create, update and query databases.

Industry Training Focus Areas

Computer Architecture & Systems Fundamentals
Programming Fundamentals
Database Fundamentals
Quality Assurance & Software Testing
Software Development Fundamentals

Year Up’s Essential Skills Training

Industry Skills Development at a Glance: You'll Learn How To...

Utilize decision trees, flow charts, algorithms and pseudo-code to communicate solutions
Program concepts to build basic software programs
Interpret, analyze, and provide feedback on peer code; write and run unit testing to verify code
Utilize an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Eclipse, NetBeans or Visual Studio to write, build, execute and debug code
Utilize SQL to build tables, specify constraints, apply indexes

Essential Skills Development at a Glance: You'll Learn How To...

Communicate professionally in-person and over digital platforms by utilizing strategies, tools, and feedback to adapt to the environment
Participate in meetings by contributing to conversation and supporting with planning and follow up actions across a team
Navigate challenging situations by regulating reactions to display grit and maintaining a positive composure
Utilize common management, editing, and conference tools such as Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, and Zoom
Gather and analyze data to provide support to and generate ideas for a business

Pursue opportunities for professional growth and maintain a well-formed resume

Training at Work: Typical Job Tasks

Work in an agile software team to develop and release a product in increments, navigating multilayer problem solving
Work with clients and development teams to build technical requirements for a software request or user story
Update, fix, and write simple code that meets software specifications and passes code reviews
Assist with debugging, testing, and releasing features and bug fixes to production