Computer Programming
& Application Development
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Plan of Study
Computer
Programming & Application Development -
AAS Degree
| Tools/Special
Requirements |
Before a student can be accepted into
the Computer Programming & Application
Development degree program, competency
in mathematics and computers must be demonstrated.
This may be done by: |
| -Passing the Math Placement Test |
| -Transfer of appropriate credits |
| -Current ACT/SAT scores in the required
range |
| -Taking the necessary prerequisite English,
math, and/or computer classes identified
in the catalog |
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| Career Opportunities |
| Visual Basic, Java, or application developer |
| Web developer |
| Database programmer |
| Access or Excel programmer |
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Degree
& Certificate Options
The College of Technology
currently offers a two-year Associate of
Applied Science degree in Computer Programming
& Application Development. Students,
if interested, may consider pursuing a Bachelor's
degree upon completion of the AAS program. |
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| What
you will learn |
- Web development
- Customize small/medium size program
applications for various businesses
- Hands-on coding in java, Visual Basic,
.Net, Perl and SQL
- Databse design
- Intensive study of Microsoft Software
Applications (Word, Excel, Access)
- Prepare students for the Sun Certified
Java Programmer exam as well as the Microsoft
Certified Application Developer exams
- Develop a portfolio of applications
created for demonstration at job interviews
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 CAREER
CLOSEUP |
| Skills,
Traits, Preparatory Classes that would be helpful |
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs
in work-related documents
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the
strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions,
conclusions or approaches to problems
- The ability to combine pieces of information
to form general rules or conclusions (includes
finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated
events)
- The ability to arrange things or actions in
a certain order or pattern according to a specific
rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers,
letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations)
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COT Graduate Placement Data 
