Information Technology (Programming) - a Short Course
Stackable modules leading to an award
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The Information Technology (Programming) short course provides you with skills to enable your employability in the IT industry. This short course will cover skills and knowledge in the following areas:
- Apply advanced critical thinking to work processes
- Contribute to cyber security risk management
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and practices
- Work collaboratively in the ICT industry
- Comply with IP, ethics and privacy policies in ICT environments
- Apply introductory programming techniques
- Identify and resolve client ICT problems
- Use version control systems in development environments
- Apply introductory object-oriented language skills
- Test software developments
- Build a user interface
- Apply introductory programming skills in different languages
- Create and style simple mark-up language documents
- Design website layouts
- Confirm accessibility of websites
- Transfer content to websites
- Create a mark-up language document
- Develop cyber security incident response plans
- Respond to cyber security incidents
- Gather, analyse and interpret threat data
Each section forms one module, which can be taken as a subject in your Scots curriculum from Years 9-12.