Understand programming
Understand
object-oriented programming
Understanding
general software development
Understanding
desktop applications
Understand
web applications
Understanding
databases
Understand programming
Understand computer storage
and data types
How a
computer stores programs and the instructions in computer memory, memory stacks
and heaps, memory size requirements for the various data storage types, numeric
data and textual data
Understand computer
decision structures
Various
decision structures used in all computer programming languages; If decision
structures; multiple decision structures, such as If…Else and switch/Select
Case; reading flowcharts; decision tables; evaluating expressions
Identify the appropriate
method for handling repetition
For loops,
While loops, do-While loops, and recursion
Understand error handling
Structured
exception handling
Understand object-oriented programming
Understand the fundamentals
of classes
Properties,
methods, events, and constructors; how to create a class; how to use classes in
code
Understand inheritance
Inheriting
the functionality of a base class into a derived class
Understand polymorphism
Extending
the functionality in a class after inheriting from a base class, overriding
methods in the derived class
Understand encapsulation
Creating
classes that hide their implementation details while still allowing access to
the required functionality through the interface, access modifiers
Understanding general software
development
Understand application life
cycle management
Phases of
application life cycle management, software testing
Interpret application
specifications
Reading
application specifications and translating them into prototypes, code, select
appropriate application type, and components
Understand algorithms and
data structures
Arrays,
stacks, queues, linked lists, and sorting algorithms; performance implications
of various data structures; choosing the right data structure
Understanding desktop applications
Understand Windows apps
UI design
guideline categories, characteristics and capabilities of Store Apps, identify
gestures
Understand console-based
applications
Characteristics
and capabilities of console-based applications
Understand Windows Services
Characteristics
and capabilities of Windows Services
Understand web applications
Understand web page
development
HTML,
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript
Understand Microsoft
ASP.NET web application development
Page life
cycle, event model, state management, client-side versus server-side
programming
Understand web hosting
Creating
virtual directories and websites, deploying web applications, understanding the
role of Internet Information Services
Understand web services
Web services
that will be consumed by client applications, accessing web services from a
client application, SOAP and Web Service Definition Language (WSDL)
Understanding databases
Understand relational
database management systems
Characteristics
and capabilities of database products, database design, Entity Relationship
Diagrams (ERDs), normalization concepts
Understand database query
methods
Structured
query language (SQL), creating and accessing stored procedures, updating data
and selecting data
Understand database
connection methods
Connecting
to various types of data stores, such as flat file; XML file; in-memory object;
resource optimization
