VA Computer Applications A/B [36 Weeks]

Semester A

This one-semester course is intended as a practical, hands-on guide to help you understand the concepts and techniques associated with computer programming. This course has four Units with 15 lessons and four Unit Activities. Each lesson contains one or more Lesson Activities. This course describes the skills and training required for careers in computer programming and the work ethics required in a computing environment. This course covers the use of enterprise systems and discusses number systems, data types, and functions used in computation. In addition, this course discusses computer programming, including programming languages, types of programming paradigms, and program structures. Finally, this course also covers web programming, teaching you how to create web pages in HTML, how to use program structures in JavaScript, and how to do programming with JavaScript.

Semester B

This one-semester course is intended as a practical, hands-on guide to help you understand various phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). This course has four Units with 14 lessons and four Unit Activities. Each lesson contains one or more Lesson Activities. This course will cover various phases of SDLC such as analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation. This course describes software development methodologies, how client requirements are gathered and analyzed, various types of project plans, design using unified modeling language (UML), coding, types of testing, quality control, and maintenance of software systems. This course also covers various security threats and risks and the methods to mitigate them.