MDIA 1620 Basic Systems Operations and Programming

BCIT

Technical Information

Software Used:

PowerPoint
YouTube
Adobe Creative Cloud
Visual Studio

Date:

September 2023 – December 2023

Client:

Henry Leung BCIT

Title:

Curriculum Developer

Course Description

Monika Szucs help created and update the content in the Digital Design and Development Diploma at BCIT.

Students in this course will receive an in-depth exploration of the current technological system operations and programming methodologies and scripts to operate, manage, and install application protocols and plugins effectively. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, students in this course will be provided with practical real-world experience. Students will create scripts and commands to operate a computer system to do administrative work such as accounts, securities, and system modifications. Students will learn to connect with other operating systems such as repositories and servers. Student will learn basic programming foundation to operate and connect system communications and become an effective troubleshooter and collaborator.

Course Learning Outcomes/Competencies

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Discuss the pros and cons of the main OS variants by objectively comparing features, benefits, and disadvantages.
Perform basic system administration tasks, such as:
- Navigation in an operating system such as UNIX shell.
- Modifications in an operating system.
- Pattern recognition and searchers on file types.
- Connection and communication with other operating systems.
Install and use other operating system tool such as git.
Operate system using basic programming foundations.
Operate system using basic programming foundations.
Discuss the main risks to security and system integrity for Internet-accessible computers and networks, while addressing best practices to mitigate these risks.

Course Goals

The goal of this course is to get students comfortable with using the command lines to navigate around the computer, setting up their coding environment, and understanding coding terminologies. With this in mind, this course sets up the foundations of coding which will allow students to apply these fundamentals in their future coding classes.

Evaluation Criteria

Criteria	%
In Class Exercises	30
Midterm Exam	35
Final Exam	35

Course Schedule and Assignments

Week #	Week of	Content	Note
1	Sept 3	Labour Day Introduction to file/folder structures, node.js and javascript.
2	Sept 10	Basic setup operations of javascript with command lines and formatting.	Exercise
3	Sept 17	Introduction to basic hierarchy structures, string formatting and arithmetics.	Exercise
4	Sept 24	Introduction to variable calculations and identifying data types.	Exercise
5	Oct 1	National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Operators and statements.
6	Oct 8	Thanksgiving Day Introduction to Functions
7	Oct 15	Variations of Functions	Exercises
8	Oct 22	Midterm
9	Oct 29	Setting up data and repositories.	Exercises
10	Nov 5	Setting up data and looping through information.	Exercises
11	Nov 12	Remembrance Day Setting up loops and operators.
12	Nov 19	Intro to testing.	Exercises
13	Nov 26	Intermediate testing
14	Dec 3	Final Exam

Course Topics

Design

Using drawing tools to plan out code and organisation structures.

Test

Setting up unit tests

Develop

Setting up the basics of JavaScript code.

Sample Videos

Solution

Creating content to help students learn coding from scratch. This course helped students learn the basics of JavaScript, Next.js, Node.js, GitHub and how to navigate around Visual Studio.