Computer Training Courses in London, UK

The College Of Central London:
Situated just 2 miles northeast of London city, in the London Borough of Hackney, The College of Central London is a private College of further and higher education, established over 37 years ago. We offer computer courses designed to provide a sound knowledge of the principles of structured programming, computer theory, information processing, computer organisations and data communications systems. Students who successfully complete courses at the college can either seek employment in the computer industry, or continue their studies in higher education.

BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computing, Business IT and SE:
The BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computing is an internationally recognised qualification and is validated, administered and verified by the BTEC/Edexcel. The BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) is equivalent to the first two years of an Honours Degree programme at a British University. This qualification is designed to equip students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required for success in current and future employment in Information Technology. This qualification falls in line with the British Computer Society (BCS) and Engineering Council requirements for accreditation and exemption from the BCS examination..

Duration of course: Two years full-time study.

Students must take:
9 CORE modules and 7 OPTION modules to qualify for an HND. .
5 CORE modules and 5 OPTION modules to qualify for an HNC.

CORE MODULES:
1 Computer Platforms
2 Systems Analysis
3 Software Constructs & Tools
4 Computing Solutions
5* Computer Implementation Project
6* Software Engineering Implementation Project
7* Business Information Technology Implementation Project
8 Quality Management Principles
9 Communication Technology
10*Advanced Computing Project
11*Advanced Software Engineering Project
12*Advanced Business Information Technology Project

City and Guilds e-Quals Level 3 - Advanced Diploma for IT Practitioners (Software Development):
For the award of the Advanced Diploma, candidates must successfully complete the assessments for one of units 301-305 plus 306 and 307, plus any two other units, from 301-311 within the Level 3 Advanced Diploma for IT Practitioners (Software Development) award.

Core units:
301 Develop software using 'C'
302 Develop software using C++
304 Develop software using Visual Basic
305 Develop software using Java
306 Create designs for software
307 Requirements analysis and systems specification

Optional units
309 Web site design
311 Relational database
City & Guilds Unit 306 Create designs for Software (Mandatory)

Rationale:
The aim of this unit is to enable candidates to develop the skills required to create a detailed software design specification from a given outline program design specification.

Internet Programming and Web Development:
Introduction to JavaScript/ASP - The basic tools of an E-Commerce Web Site. This course aims to provide the students with an overview of JavaScript and ASP (VBScript). This provides them with the tools to produce highly interactive web sites. JavaScript provides client-side interaction with the user. ASP provides a connection between the user and any server-side objects (i.e. databases, files, remote email etc.).

JavaScript allows the web page designer to interact with the user by accessing and manipulating objects on the client HTML page. The JavaScript code can be used to: -

* Validate the text contained in text-boxes (checking for correctly formatted dates or credit card numbers or postcodes, for example).
* Allow visual interaction based on the location and state of the mouse, i.e. changing images when the mouse cursor move over or is click on a menu option (provides feedback to user).
* Load different images based on some external variable (the time, date or number of visits to the web site).
* Create cookies on the client machine to monitor visits, store user and password information or to store user preferences.
* Allow dynamically created HTML to be introduced into the web page to display content that based on user interaction i.e. a dynamic quiz (questions are produced randomly and the answers are checked on the fly etc.).
ASP (Server-side VBScript) allows the web page designer to pass information to and from web pages. The data is generally stored in a database of some kind (Microsoft Access and SQL Server). ASP web pages can be considered to be data driven i.e. the content of the page is dependant on data held in a database.

We also offer the following courses:

* BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies
* City and Guilds e-Quals Level 1 - Certificate for IT Users
* City and Guilds e-Quals Level 2 - Diploma for IT Practitioners (Software Development)