Become a Programmer: Foundations

Programmers are in higher demand today than ever before. Get the essential skills and tools to become a successful software engineer, and learn the fundamental concepts and practices that are critical to the task of coding—no matter what language you choose.

• Develop the knowledge to begin programming in any language.
• Connect programming theory to practice in real life scenarios.
• Learn and apply best practices from experts in the field.

• Course 1: Programming Foundations: Fundamentals
• Prepare to learn the fundamental concepts, practices, and terminology of programming in this introductory course.
• Course 2: Programming Foundations: Beyond the Fundamentals
• Dive deeper into the foundational concepts, practices, and terminology of programming. Learn how to work with collections, use external code, find and fix bugs, and more.
• Course 3: Programming Foundations: Real-World Examples
• Learn how to connect programming theory to practice. Learn about basic programming concepts such as functions, variables, and loops by comparing them to real-life scenarios.
• Course 4: Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design
• Good software starts with great design. Get a fun and fresh introduction to object-oriented design and analysis—from defining requirements to diagramming classes.
• Course 5: Programming Foundations: Algorithms
• Algorithms are the universal building blocks of programming. Learn the most popular and useful programming algorithms for searching and sorting data, counting values, and more.
• Course 6: Programming Foundations: Design Patterns
• Learn about key object-oriented design patterns (including the Observer, Decorator, and Factory patterns) that make your development process faster and easier.
• Course 7: Programming Foundations: Data Structures
• Learn about programming with data structures. Discover how to store, organize, and access data using data structures such as arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, and hash tables.
• Course 8: Programming Foundations: Databases
• Learn the fundamentals of database programming. Find out how to build a database, define relationships, and write queries.
• Course 9: Programming Foundations: APIs and Web Services
• Learn all about web services—the standard method of communicating between applications and across the web—and see how to build them using several popular technologies.
• Course 10: Programming Foundations: Web Security
• Learn about the most important security concerns when developing websites, and what you can do to keep your servers, software, and data safe from harm.
• Course 11: Programming Foundations: Test-Driven Development
• Improve your software quality and delivery speed. Learn how to adopt a test-driven development process to build testing into your daily routine.
• Course 12: Programming Foundations: Software Testing/QA
• Learn how to incorporate different kinds of software testing into your development cycle to help your team meet quality goals with every release.
• Course 13: Programming Foundations: Secure Coding
• Learn how to incorporate security into the software development life cycle. Add secure coding practices to agile processes to protect data and prevent recurring flaws.
• Course 14: Programming Foundations: Fuzzy Logic
• Learn about fuzzy logic-a form of logic used in AI, which helps computers handle partial truths and more closely approximate human reasoning.