Students develop their workplace communications skills through critical thinking and problem solving. Using available technology, students research, write, and edit workplace documents, individually and collaboratively. With audio-visual support, they deliver oral presentations that have vocational emphasis. Knowledge of a word-processing software package is essential for completing assignments. The justification for a formalized systems life cycle and the importance of satisfying the information needs of end-users is stressed throughout.
Considerable emphasis is placed on the relationship between the systems analyst and the end-users.
Small business and corporate applications will be discussed. This course introduces students to event-driven programming in a Windows environment using Visual Basic. Students will develop the skills necessary to modify existing event-driven programs according to supplied specifications as well as design, code, test, debug and document programs using an application development tool to solve simple problems and moderately complex problems. This introductory programming course lays the foundation for programming algorithms and other problem-solving techniques. This course provides students with a working knowledge of the modern operating environments.