Teachers: RIchard Dixon, East Campus
Joan Bailey, West Campus

Information Technology – Programming is a series of methods of collecting, compiling, and analyzing large quantities of data to satisfy our society’s ever-increasing need for information. With increasing frequency it is apparent that an understanding of IT is a necessary part of general education for students who live and work in our technological society.

The curriculum is designed to provide instruction in basic computer operations, and computer program design and preparation. The students utilize a modern state-of-the-art network computer system and its associated peripheral equipment to work on live problems, utilizing business and scientific computer languages. They gather data, enter it into the computer system and design, prepare, test, and place into productive-state computer programs to analyze the data.

The course will provide instruction in AS/400 Workstation Operator, COBOL, JavaScript, VisualBasic, C++, HTML, Keyboarding, Microsoft Office XP, Visual J++/Java, Query, and RPG IV programming.

Graduates of this program are well prepared for employment as a business programmer, scientific programmer, computer operator, computer support specialist, and web developer. Additional education can lead to more advanced opportunities in programming and systems analysis. Additional education in this field can lead to advanced opportunities in programming and systems analysis.

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