College Course Information
This page just explains what I did on the 3 college courses I did.
This page just explains what I did on the 3 college courses I did.
This section is just about what I had done during these courses, what I had learnt, etc.
This is an example image of a heavily modified Enfield 8000 electric car from the 1970s which was modified by Johnny Smith from the TV program "5th Gear" and the YouTube channel "Carpervert" now "The Late Brake Show". The image is © Johnny Smith/ Flux Capacitor 2022.
Starting in the educational year of 2018-2019, I did a Level 1 Business BTEC course at Kingston College in which I learnt some skills such as teamwork and meetings.
I also had to create an idea for my own business of which I chose to make a business selling an EV conversion kit for a Petrol/Diesel/LPG car while everyone else in my class were designing business selling food and drinks or vapes/e-cigarettes in their own store or van, so pretty much everyone else in the classroom acted like sheep and followed the heard, copying each other while I was the only one who had stood out and was willing to do something else.
I was studying a Level 2 IT Diploma at Kingston College starting in September 2019 where I was learning the skills of using Microsoft office software such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access as well as a section on the course on “IT User Fundamentals” and using the program Paint.Net. I also learnt some HTML programming using the program “Microsoft Expressions Web” dated from 2012 but when the college closed during the 1st national lockdown of 2020, I finished off my work using Adobe Dreamweaver using my Student ID No. when all students at the South Thames Colleges Group were given access to Adobe Creative Cloud for free.
For the image on the left (above on mobile phones), I could've learnt how to make something like this if only we weren't forced to use Paint.Net and were encouraged to use more powerful programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Krita or GIMP.
The image on the left is from Krita Artists and is by user "wojtryb"
This image is of the KDE program called "Index" which is a cross-platform file browser designed for smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. I've used this image because I eventually want to improve my programming skills to be able to make something as good, if not better than this free program.
In September 2020, I started this Level 3 course at Kingston College. So far, I have learnt the ins and outs of Microsoft Access (Databases (using features such as Relational Databases, Forms, Reports & Queries), Data Modelling with Excel (such as using the Goal Seek function), basic programming in Visual Studio using the language “Visual Basic”, some HTML+CSS programming, Social Media marketing as well as now moving on to software testing with one of my lecturers alongside some more software development with one of my other Lecturers having previously started some software design using the program “QSEE Superlite” from Leeds Beckett University.
Very basics of running a business
Running and organising a meeting including Meeting Minutes
Differences between each company type and the very basics of starting a business
Creating a business idea (see above)
Using most features of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Paint.Net
Learning how to use some features of Microsoft Access, Excel including how to create a new spreadsheet and Access Database
Learning about computer safety and some of the surrounding laws
Creating a basic website in HTML, CSS
Creating a HTML, CSS website, most students just used a website builder
Learning about Software Design and Testing
Developing a set of simple programs using Microsoft Visual Studio most were command-line programs and some of the more complex programs were graphical, the most complex program was one for a "phone company" selling phones to customers with data input on one screen and then sent to a new window.
Learning about Network Paradigms some of which I already knew after watching videos from Computerphile
Learning about Data security and data backups
Learning about some laws around general computing