Software Systems Developer

​This course series promotes team success through a focus on effective verbal communication, acknowledgement of diversity, respect for others, conflict resolution techniques and stress reduction techniques. Team success skills are practised through discussion, case studies and role play activities. The series also promotes professionalism in presentations for explaining or sharing ideas with other teammates or for promotional pitches to project hosts. Presentation activities include a team presentation with slides for practice.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course series emphasizes professional career-focused communication and personal presentation necessary for professional job search. Course content includes how to construct an effective technical resume, compose a cover letter, develop digital profiles, prepare for the technical job interview and manage career goals over the long-term. Activities include composing a technical resume, practising mock job interviews and receiving constructive feedback. Guest speakers from industry attend to share their insights, and provide recommendations for pursuing career success.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​Students will learn the basics of front-end web development, code management, and the tools of web design. Course topics and activities include a review of the web in general, how it works from the internet layer to the application layer, and how to create basic multi-page web sites. Students will understand the importance of writing modern, standards compliant, and semantic HTML using the latest web standards. Web-page design and layout is introduced through the introduction of CSS, the design language of the web. Students will develop web layouts that work on mobile, tablet and desktop clients by utilizing responsive web development techniques. ​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​In SSDP 1505, students learn and apply industry-standard development structures and methods for relational database design and development. The course first emphasizes structure and schema creation to ensure data accuracy and integrity. Then implementation of relational structures and management are examined through extensive coverage of Structured Query Language (SQL) for creating, reading, updating, and deleting data. A wide range of queries for joining, grouping, and aggregating data are practiced. Database objects studied also include stored procedures, views, functions, triggers, and cursors. Permissions and access management through the users and roles are examined. Common concurrency configurations are also studied. Upon successful completion, participants are able to design and build complete databases which can be integrated into other software systems.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course examines client-side JavaScript fundamentals for developing dynamic interactive HTML/CSS-based applications. Course content examines JavaScript basics for implementing logic with basic structures such as variables, functions, loops, collections, and objects. The course also requires practice in DOM manipulation, event handling, callback functions, and simple animations.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​In this course, students who have completed the program entry prerequisite are exposed to the fundamental programming structures of the main coding language(s) to be used within the Software Systems Developer program. Topics of this course include code environment setup, debugging, data structures, fundamental programming structures, string manipulation, and collections. Object-oriented content includes an in-depth focus on polymorphism, namespaces, access modifiers, virtual and abstract inheritance, generic types, interfaces, structs, delegates, anonymous functions, events, and call backs. Course content also focuses on object-relational mapping for creating, reading, updating, and deleting database content through code. Both code-first and database-first alternatives are examined for database implementations with exercises and projects. Labs and exercises focus on writing code for projects, assignments, and activities.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course introduces a foundation in systems analysis and design and for agile project management techniques that are commonly used by software developers. The range of topics discussed and practised include application design, Unified Modelling Language (UML) and Agile management. Beginning with an introduction to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), students work in teams to define the scope of the problem being solved, analyze existing processes, gather requirements and supporting materials, and create logical design to model the solution. Participants are involved with initiating and managing the project in teams. Traditional modelling and Unified Modelling Language (UML) are used for design notation. Agile frameworks such as Scrum are also introduced and practised. Participants work in groups, to provide detailed written materials and design documentation. Teams will present their system designs to the class. Upon completion, successful students will be able to use collaborative tools and common methods for analyzing, designing, documenting, communicating, presenting and implementing software solutions within teams. ​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course introduces current mainstream JavaScript frameworks for developing modularized single-page applications. Content focuses on the benefits of the automation of features. Participants first learn development fundamentals and then practise building components, modules, and services for data-driven, client-side web applications. Exercises also include routing, asynchronous JSON transfer, and validation. Automated testing is introduced as well. ​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​Students will develop an understanding of web development processes as part of a team of developers and project stakeholders. Modern HTML and CSS technologies that allow for the creation of advanced responsive layouts and animated user interfaces will be explored. Students will discuss and practise sharing and version-controlling code with a team of developers, automating web development tasks using task runners and improving CSS development using the latest CSS pre-processors.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course provides further practice and development perspective for skills covered in SSDP 2800 React Essentials but with competing frameworks. Content focuses on the benefits of the automation of features. Participants first learn development fundamentals and then practise building components, modules, and services for data-driven, client-side web applications. Exercises also include routing, asynchronous JSON transfer, validation, and automated testing.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course focuses on using Node.js to develop MVC and API applications using both relational and unstructured NoSQL databases. The course begins with examining how to use the Node.js tool chain and then focuses on the Node.js programming model. Web frameworks for scaffolding and testing with Node.js are examined. ​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course focuses on the back-end web development of applications which serve HTML and JSON through MVC and API frameworks. Web applications built during the course manage content in relational databases. Topics include development patterns, user session management, server and client-side validation, scaffolding for development automation, code testing, and interacting with separate client applications. ​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This hands-on course builds upon SSDP2600 Software Systems Analysis and Design. The course starts with a review of the agile process. Then, students practise how to implement primary agile methods within the Scrum framework. Course work emphasizes team communication within a project setting while maintaining collaborative, coherent, flexible and realistic designs during development. The project activity encourages research, complex problem solving, professional judgment and decision-making, active learning and monitoring of team performance. Techniques and tools for gathering and responding to feedback, managing project timelines, and source code are also practised. Students will present their designs to the class at the end of the course. Detailed written materials, technical designs and source code will also be submitted at the end of the course to complete the project.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This course builds upon SSDP 3200 MVC and API frameworks to focus on additional integration of back-end services with third-party clients and cloud services. Study and practice also emphasize role-based user management. Web application security against common application threats are examined, and techniques for preventing attacks, theft and vandalism are practised. To assist with learning, course activities include code attacks on classroom-hosted web applications.
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​Lessons, labs, and practical assignments in this course examine cross-platform-enabled frameworks for developing mobile and tablet applications. The course will focus mainly on Android deployments but will address platform-neutral code, as well.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​This hands-on course was designed for web application developers with coding experience in a variety of web-programming environments. The course begins with a brief history of virtualization technologies, followed by an introduction to containerization technologies. Docker architecture is discussed, along with ways to simplify the software delivery process using containers. Students build custom images by pulling and pushing images from the Docker registry and setting up automated pipelines to build custom images directly from source control systems like GitHub. Topics include DevOps enablement by Docker, Docker Swarm orchestration engine, networking containers, and data persistence using volumes. Enabling microservices architecture using containers and cloud providers' support for containerization technologies are also discussed. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to use Docker to package applications for accelerated development and deployment to help enable software delivery at a faster pace.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​Students with experience creating full-stack web applications will learn how to deploy those applications to the cloud. Students will learn how to utilize a cloud platform to deploy their web applications. Students will also learn how to create serverless applications. Students will learn how to utilize modern cloud services to create and deploy serverless applications that are fully scalable without managing servers. Topics include: serverless architecture, serverless functions, serverless databases, user authentication and authorization, object storage, infrastructure as code, virtual machines, cloud-native databases, object storage, custom domain names, and horizontal scaling.​
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​The industry project allows students to develop and manage projects within the guidelines specified by faculty. The projects are drawn from a variety of sources, especially from industry situations. While most work is usually completed in the BCIT lab, project work requires regular contact with the project host, who is usually within the business community. Students work in teams and seek advice from a faculty member acting as their project supervisor. The project requires practice of critical thinking, active listening to properly manage requirements and expectations, research, complex problem solving, professional judgment and decision-making, and performance monitoring. At the end of the course, students will present their industry solutions to the class in addition to submitting written project documentation, designs and source code.​
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• No prerequisites are required for this course.