Computer Programmer
CDI's Computer Programmer diploma program prepares students to excel in a variety of computer programming jobs. The program is taught by industry-seasoned professionals who use hands-on training to teach students to write, manage, and troubleshoot programming code in order to update and maintain programming information.
CDI's computer programming training provides you with the programming, coding, systems analysis, and database management skills you need to start a career in Information Technology. The program covers various hardware and software, as well as programming procedures and applications.
Graduates of this program will be prepared for IT careers as game developers, web developers, programmers, database designers, system coordinators, software testers, and technical support representatives.
"The program gave me new insight into the world of computers. I really feel now that I can basically do any job in this field." - John B., CDI Graduate
Program Courses
The program outline below is for British Columbia.
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- This course looks at the planning, preparation, execution, and follow-up stages of an interview.
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- The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the relational database. Using a step-by-step hands-on approach, students will build a simple relational database to familiarize themselves with the concepts and objects involved. This course will make students aware of security issues associated with databases.
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- This course is a general overview of computers and computer terminology. It describes the hardware that makes up a computer system as well as the software that makes it functional and useful. Students learn about the user interface, common software applications and the Internet. The issues and challenges associated with using computers, such as ergonomics, privacy and security are also introduced.
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- The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the discipline of structured logic used in designing traditional, event-driven and object-oriented programming. The course will acquaint the student with the three basic control structures, with arrays, and with file input and output.
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- This course requires the student to re-invest all learning acquired in the courses SD1E, PLDE, PRFE, and PRTE or PTCE to produce a functional application.
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- This course requires the student to re-invest all learning acquired in the courses SD2E, DBCE, SQAE, SQDE and PRIE to produce a functional application.
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- This program includes a practicum component consisting of a specified number of weeks of work at a job site. This practicum work experience is a mandatory diploma requirement and the business organization does not pay for the services of the student during the practicum. The number of practicum hours varies between programs. To learn more about the specific practicum hours for a specific program, speak with an Admissions Representative.
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- Programming Fundamentals is a programming language course designed to provide the student with the main set of tools and structured programming concepts used to write a program. This course will introduce students to the discipline of applying algorithms to write programming code to produce a working program.
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- Processing Information is a programming language course designed to provide the student with the tools and programming concepts used to write a program that accesses, manipulates and reports data from a database, to manage program versions, and to create simple graphical elements. This course introduces students to ADO.NET and XML and Crystal Reports. Additionally, students will learn the basics of managing assemblies, as well as graphical drawing.
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- Programming Techniques is a programming language course designed to provide the student with the main set of tools and programming concepts used to write a program. The primary objectives of this course are to introduce students to the basic concepts and techniques of applying structured programming techniques within object-oriented programming, and the Windows forms and components used to produce a working program with graphical interface.
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- This course is designed to equip students with interpersonal skills identified by employers as essential for success in the professional world. Using a variety of instructional methods including case studies, group exercises, and discussion, students learn and practice key communication skills.
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- Subjects – Introduction to the system development life cycle. Modeling and design processes of a structured system using the traditional approach. Production of ERD and DFD documents using CASE tools (Visio).
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- Subjects – Application of object-oriented concepts using UML. Designing, modeling and normalizing relational, object-oriented and distributed databases (Visio). Design of ergonomic user-centered graphical interfaces
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- The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the database objects present within a scalable database server. Students will learn the database architecture, and apply relational database and programming concepts to create and manipulate a database. The student will use dialogs, built-in Wizards, and a programming language, Transaction-SQL (T-SQL), to work with the database server. Throughout the course, students will learn how to use tools to build and manipulate a database.
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- The primary objective of this course is to familiarize students with the programming objects available within a SQL Server database. The course will also introduce students to security, implementation, tuning and monitoring a scalable database server. Students will apply relational database and programming concepts to create and manipulate objects within a database while using the SQL Server methods. Throughout the course, students will learn how to use tools to build and manipulate a database.
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- This course will introduce students to skills and concepts that will help them achieve personal, academic, and career success.
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