Develops fundamental skills in the use of the Unity 3D game engine to develop games and X Reality (XR or Cross Reality), including virtual reality, augmented reality and simulations or 'experiences'. Students will design independently and as part of a team. Also covers workflow itself - time and resource management, planning and production strategies for entertainment products.
Utilizing the Unity game engine and a range of additional tools, this course is an introduction to the career opportunities in the games industry. Students will learn how individual games are made, distributed, and sold via both physical media and online. Virtual reality and augmented reality will also be examined.
Development and Operations (DevOps) is the use of build automation tools to automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and management of data centers and networks. These same tools are used to automatically build and test software for Quality Assurance (QA). Design tests and use tools like Jenkins to execute planned systematic actions that provide confidence in a software product under development, and its infrastructure.
Introduction to principal software engineering processes and pitfalls. Focus on users, development methodologies, testing, and tools. Use of techniques including version control, functional specification, Agile and Test-Driven Development.
Analyze, design, write, test, and debug shell scripts. Students learn basic shell scripting techniques and develop scripting skills needed for Unix/Linux System Administration courses. The bash shell is used.
Introduction to using the Unix/Linux operating system. Unix/Linux file management and common text processing utilities including searching.
An advanced course in the use of MySQL techniques to process database objects. Design and develop MySQL program units: stored procedures, functions, and database triggers. Work with dynamic SQL and with XML data.
Students install and configure a MySQL server and create and manage user accounts. Issues
pertaining to optimization, security, privileges, tuning, troubleshooting, and performing upgrades are
studied and practiced.
A course in the use of SQL database management systems to create, query, and update database tables. The course covers both the syntax and the logic of the major features of the SQL language. It also covers a brief overview of NoSQL (Not Only SQL) data sources such as JSON and MongoDB.
Programming techniques for processing XML data. Comparison of programming approaches, including SAX, SAX-like, and DOM interfaces. Navigating, filtering, and modifying XML. Transformation of XML data. Use of XML with databases and serialization.