Core Programming
- Computer storage and data types
- Programs and instructions in computer memory, memory stacks and heaps, memory size requirements for data storage types
- Decision structures
- Flowcharts, decision tables and evaluating expressions
- Handling repetitions, e.g. For loops, While loops, Do... While loops and recursion
- Error handling
- Structured exception handling
Object-Oriented Programming
- The fundamentals of classes: How to create a class and how to use classes
- Properties, methods, events and constructors
- Inheritance, base classes and derived classes
- Extending the functionality of a class after inheriting from a base class
- Overriding methods in a derived class
- Polymorphism
- Encapsulation
- Creating classes that hide implementation details, using interface and access modifiers
General Software Development
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Software testing
- Interpreting application specifications
- Reading application specifications and translating them. Selecting the appropriate application type and components
- Algorithms and data structures
- Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists and sorting algorithms
- Performance implications of data structures
Web Applications
- HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- ASP.NET Web application development
- Page lifecycle, event model, state management and client/server-side programming
- Web hosting
- Virtual directories and deploying Web applications on IIS
- Web Services
- Web Service usage, SOAP, WSDL
Desktop Applications
- Windows Store applications
- UI design guideline categories, characteristics and capabilities of Store Apps
- Identify guestures
- Characteristics and capabilities of console-based applications
- Windows Services, characteristics and capabilities
Databases
- Relational database management systems
- Characteristics and capabilities of database products, database design, Entity Relationship Diagrams and normalisation concepts.
- Database query methods
- Updating and selecting data using SQL
- Creating and accessing stored procedures
- Database connection methods
- Connecting to data stores, such as flat file, XML, in-memory objects