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Frame, steer and deliver — a proven method, in six months.
- Framing
- Planning
- Risk management
- Scrum
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Introduction to Programming
Write your first useful program, with no prior background.
- Entry level
- Short course
- Award
- Course attendance certificate
- Duration
- 3 months
- Actual work
- 8 h/week
- Pace
- Self-paced
- Tuition
- 1 200 000 GNF in total
A gateway into digital careers: logic, algorithms and first programs in Python. The programme aims at autonomy on small everyday tools rather than theory.
Learning objectives
- Understand algorithmic logic and problem decomposition
- Write, run and debug a Python program
- Handle files and automate a repetitive task
- Continue independently towards a degree programme
Curriculum
60 hours · 6 credits
Year 160 hours
Logic and algorithms
15 hours · 2 credits
Variables, conditions, loops and breaking a problem into steps.
First Python programs
15 hours · 2 credits
Syntax, functions, lists, dictionaries and reading error messages.
Files and automation
15 hours · 1 credits
Reading and writing files, simple data processing and small useful scripts.
Final project
15 hours · 1 credits
Building a personal tool that answers a real need of the learner.
Real prerequisite
What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.
None. Being able to use a computer is enough — the only course in the catalogue that assumes nothing.
Entry requirements
- Open to all, no prerequisites
- Access to a computer
Career outcomes
- Progression to the Computer Science degree
- Progression to Web and Mobile Development
- Task automation in your current role
Skills acquired
- Python
- Algorithms
- Automation
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