Programming Microcredentials

AWS Foundational

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 32 hours + hands on practice and exam study time

The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner offers a foundational understanding of AWS Cloud concepts, services, and terminology. This is a good starting point for individuals in non-technical roles with no prior IT or cloud experience or for those with on-premises IT experience looking for basic AWS Cloud fluency. This certification can give candidates the confidence to tackle role-based AWS Certifications.

What You Will Learn

• Basic understanding of IT services and their uses on AWS Cloud
• Knowledge of core AWS services and use cases, billing and pricing models, security concepts, and how cloud impacts your business

This is the foundational course. There are 11 other AWS courses for professionals, associates, and specialty certifications for future possibilities.

How to Earn Credential

• The AWS Foundational course prepares you to take the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam (CLF-C01).

C/C++

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 32 hours + hands-on practice and exam study time

This micro-credential program is a good introduction for those who have never programmed before. The program provides a thorough introduction to the basic syntax and structure of the C++ programming language. This program focuses on creating C++ applications that define variables and arrays and that use if statements, switch/case statements, for loops and while loops. Participants will also create functions and pass information into functions by value and by reference using pointers and will build applications made up of several files.

What You Will Learn

• Compile and run a basic C++ program.
• Write C++ code that uses numeric and string data in variables.
• Illustrate the knowledge of variables, types, values, definition, and objects.
• Write C++ code that uses common operator.
• Write C++ code that uses your own functions and header files.
• Write C++ applications that use your own classes.
• Write C++ code that uses arrays, matrices, and lists.
• Write C++ applications that use pointers to containers and variables.
• Write C++ application that use conditional statement and loops.
• Write C++ code that handles exceptions and validates data.

Participants will need access to a C++ compiler, which is available for download. Contact us. You may be eligible for the cost of the download to be paid by a Good Jobs Challenge grant through the U.S. Economic Development Admnistration.

How to Earn Credential

1. ICC Corporate & Community Education Certificate of Completion
2. 3.2 CEU

C#

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary.
Length of Program: 32 hours + hands-on practice and exam study time 

You will be introduced to the concepts of object-oriented programming using C#. No previous computer programming experience is required. This program focuses on the fundamentals of .NET programming. Participants will create C# applications using variables, conditional statements, looping statements, arrays, and functions.

What You Will Learn

• Compile and run a basic C# program.
• Write C# application that uses labels, text fields and buttons on a form.
• Write C# code that uses numeric and string data in variables.
• Write C# application that use conditional statement and loops.
• Write C# code that includes methods and event handlers.
• Will write C# code that handles exceptions and validates data.
• Write C# applications that use arrays, and other data collection storage tools.
• Write C# applications that use date and string variables.
• Add standard controls to their C# projects and create a mult-form application.
• Create a final project using what they’ve learned in this course.

How to Earn Credential

1. ICC Corporate & Community Education Certificate of Completion
2. 3.2 CEU

Java 1

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 32 hours + hands-on practice and exam study time

This micro-credential program provides an introduction to the concepts of object-oriented programming using Java 9.0. Participants will learn fundamentals of Java programming and create applications that use variables, conditional statements, looping statements, arrays and functions. Java SE 9.0 and NetBeans 9.0 may be used to follow along with the course content.

What You Will Learn

• Compile and run a basic Java program.
• Write Java code that uses data types such as numeric, string, and date time values in variables.
• Illustrate the knowledge of variables, types, values, definition, and objects.
• Write Java code that handles common errors and exceptions.
• Write Java code that uses your own methods and modules .
• Write Java code that uses arrays, collections, maps, and lists.
• Write Java application that use conditional statement and loops.
• Write Java code that handles exceptions and validates data.
• Learn how to work with file input and output for two types of files: text files and binary files.

How to Earn Credential

• Follow the JAVA 1 program
• Receive a certificate

Java 2

Recommended Prior Experience: Java 1

This class is a continuation of JAVA 1. We will learn and explore more advanced topics of object-oriented programming with Java.  At the end of this class, you can use Java to develop projects like mobile applications. You will also be able to understand Java object specifications and use objects and frameworks created by other developers. 

What You Will Learn

• Learn and apply intermediate concepts related to object-oriented programming with Java. 
• Learn, practice, and apply job-ready skills in less than 2 hours. 
• Receive training from industry experts. 
• Gain hands-on experience solving real-world job tasks. 
• Build confidence using the latest tools and technologies.

How to Earn Credential

• Follow the Java 2 program
• Receive a certificate

Python 1

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 6 weeks

If you want to learn how to program but have little or no experience, you have chosen the right language. That is because Python has a simple syntax that makes it easier to learn than other programming languages. At the same time, it is a powerful language that provides all the features needed to master any programming language.

What You Will Learn

• Use IDLE to test Python expressions and statements in the interactive shell.
• Code, test, and debug programs.
• Use pseudocode to plan your control structures and programs.
• Define and use functions, default values, named arguments, local variables, and global variables. 
• Plan the test runs for a program.
• Use lists and tuples in your programs.
• Use text, CSV, or binary files to save and retrieve data.
• Add the proper level of exception handling.
• Code, test, and debug programs that work with numbers.
• Code, test, and debug programs that work with strings.
• Code, test, and debug programs that work with dates and times.

How to Earn Credential

• Follow the Python 1 program
• Receive a certificate. 

Python 2

Recommended Prior Experience: Python 1
Length of Program: 6 weeks

This course will introduce the core data structures of the Python programming language. We will move past the basics of procedural programming and explore how we can use the Python built-in data structures such as lists, dictionaries, and tuples to perform increasingly complex data analysis.

What You Will Learn

• Explain the principles of data structures & how they are used 
• Create programs that are able to read and write data from files 
• Store data as key/value pairs using Python dictionaries 
• Accomplish multi-step tasks like sorting or looping using tuples 

How to Earn Credential

• Follow the Python 2 program
• Receive a certificate. 

Security Fundamentals

This is a beginner-level course designed to introduce information technology security concepts, focusing on the question, “What is information security, and why do we need it?” Frameworks, controls, and activities to control information security and manage risk in our IT infrastructure will be explored. The course will examine how cyberattacks are carried out and the threat actors behind them. Then, learners will develop skills in counteracting cyberattacks through the use of ethical testing, as well as skills to cope with an attack by implementing an incident response strategy. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) principles will also be discussed. While this is a beginner-level course, having a basic understanding of computing concepts would be beneficial.

What You Will Learn

• Fundamentals of information security and how it differs from information assurance
• CIA Triad
• The most common security frameworks in use today
• The basics of the ISO 27000 series framework
• Key aspects of risk management including risk identification, risk mitigation, and risk controls
• Foundational understanding of cyberattacks and cybersecurity
• Basics of GDPR principles

SQL

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 32 hours

Description: Structured Query Language (SQL) is the language used to work with databases and the information stored within them. This course will provide a working knowledge of the basic forms of SQL, including how to select and update data from common table formats. Learners will create a database and use SQL to manipulate the data within it. Students will need a Windows computer to use SQL Server Management Studio.

What You Will Learn 

• Install the SQL Server demo and explore the basics of relational databases. 
• Write SQL SELECT statements to retrieve data from a single data table. 
• Write SQL SELECT statements with JOINS to retrieve data from multiple tables. 
• Write queries to summarize data using aggregate functions. 
• Write queries that contain sub queries. 
• Write queries to insert, update and delete data from data tables. 
• Write queries to convert and edit data in the database. 
• Design and create a database. 

How to Earn Credential

• Follow the Introduction to SQL program
• Receive a certificate 

Web Front End 1 

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience

This course teaches essential Web page development skills. You will learn to develop Web sites using Hypertext Markup Language version 5 (HTML5) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You will learn to write code manually, as well as use graphical user interface (GUI) authoring tools. You will also work with images, create hyperlinks, and add tables, forms, video and audio to your Web pages. If you want the knowledge and skills to design or improve Websites, this course is for you.

In addition to learning about HTML5 and CSS coding, you will learn how to use HTML5 and JavaScript Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to extend the functionality of Web pages, such as geolocation, drag-and-drop, canvas and offline Web applications. Other topics include validating your HTML and CSS code, employing search engine optimization (SEO), using style sheets extensively to format Web page content, and implementing fundamental design concepts. Throughout the course, you will learn how Web sites are developed as managed projects. You will also identify e-commerce solutions and relate Web site development to business goals.

What You Will Learn

• Web site development using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Extensible HTML (XHTML). 
• Manual code writing, graphical user interface (GUI) authoring tools, and XHTML code validation. 
• Web page development using images, hyperlinks, tables, forms.
• CGI and connecting Web pages to databases.
• Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO).
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting Web page content, and fundamental Web design concepts.
• Development of Web sites as managed projects.
• Introductory e-commerce solutions, and the relationship of Web site development to business goals.

How to Earn Credential

• Follow the Web Front End 1 program
• Receive a certificate

Web Front End 2

Recommended Prior Experience: Web Front End 1

This second Web Front End 2 course, emphasis will be placed on more advanced topics. Topics include advanced CSS, web project management, and developing client websites. 

What You Will Learn

• Web site development using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).  
• Manual code writing, graphical user interface (GUI) authoring tools, and XHTML code validation. 
• Web page development using images, hyperlinks, tables, forms. 
• Advanced Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting Web page content., 
• Web Project Management. 
• Client Website Development. 

How to Earn Credential

• Follow the Web Front End 2 program
• Receive a certificate