Application Development Fundamentals

The Technology in the Entertainment and Media Industries course examines the impact of technology and technological innovations across various industries. Students will explore a variety of interactive forms, media types, programming languages, and organizational structures and will also learn how these various components can be combined to create professional technology-based projects. In addition, students will learn how emerging technologies are shaping entertainment and media industries and how to prepare for careers in this dynamic field.

The Discrete Mathematics course provides an introduction to basic concepts of mathematics and mathematical reasoning. Students will explore propositional and symbolic logic, sets and relations, sequences, functions, algorithms, matrices, number theory, combinatorics, probability, and Boolean algebra. Students will also use sets, truth tables, and other data structures to recognize and express mathematical ideas graphically, numerically, symbolically, and in writing.

In the Introduction to Development I course, students will develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills by surveying modern data-flow and control-flow techniques and their usage in application development. Through learning the concepts of conditional logic, data types, and logical structures, students will build their knowledge of how to craft solutions programmatically.

In the Introduction to Development II course, students will examine fundamental concepts and models used to solve problems with programming in application development. In this course, students will explore how to structure code efficiently and utilize data structures using modern programming techniques.

The Application Development course cultivates the foundational skills that are needed in a developer’s arsenal. Students will explore parameters of collections and data structures and study development techniques that provide for application extendability and scalability while addressing the functional requirements of a given application.

The Project I: Application Development Fundamentals course combines hands-on learning experiences with summative and formative portfolio assessments. This course explores the various production workflows, programming methodologies, and logical approaches to business solutions for planning and executing technical projects.

The Portfolio I: Application Development Fundamentals course combines hands-on learning experiences with summative and formative portfolio assessments. In this course, students will use version control software and methodologies to fine-tune an application. They will build a code repository to showcase their work for the development community.