Are you ready to design and develop? The course is designed for high school students to strategize, design, and develop mobile and desktop applications and basic games that can be produced in the real world. Students will learn about lifecycles of project development and use models to develop applications. Attention will be placed on how user interfaces affect the usability and effectiveness of applications. Programming constructs will be employed which will allow students’ applications to interact with “real world,” stimuli. The course exposes students to privacy, legality, and security considerations with regards to the software industry.
Various forms of technologies will be used to expose students to resources, software, and applications of programming. Professional communication skills and practices, problem-solving, ethical and legal issues, and the impact of effective presentation skills are enhanced in this course to prepare students to be college and career ready. Employability skills are integrated into activities, tasks, and projects throughout the course standards to demonstrate the skills required by business and industry. Competencies in the co-curricular student organization, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), are integral components of the employability skills standard for this course.
Programming, Games, Apps and Society is the third course in the Programming pathway in the Information Technology cluster. Students enrolled in this course should have successfully completed Introduction to Digital Technology and Computer Science Principles. After mastery of the standards in this course, students should be prepared to take the end of pathway assessment in this career area.
The pre-requisites for this course are Intro to Digital Technology, Computer Science Principles, and Advisor approval.