Level 3 Digital T-Level (2 year)
Software Developer
[Get a free laptop upon enrolment]
Learn to code in 3 different languages
Develop knowledge and skills to become a full stack developer
Experience digital industry
About the Course
The Software Developer route is intended for students who want to progress to a career in the Digital sector, with a focus on software design and development..
The purpose of the T-Level in Digital: Digital Production, Design and Development (Pearson Specification) is to ensure students have the knowledge and skills needed to progress into highly skilled employment, university or a degree apprenticeship within the specialist areas including software development, cybersecurity, web-development and full stack engineer.
At the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate threshold competence, which means that they have gained the core knowledge and skills related to software design and development against Level 3 Apprenticeship standards in this occupational specialism.
Overview
Course Type: Level 3 Technical Level | Full Time
Route: Digital
Qualification: Digital Production, Design and Development
Duration: 2 Years
Lessons: 16hr taught + 9hr online learning per week
Other: 45-60 day industry placement
Start Date: 01/09/2022
What will you study?
Software Engineering
Students will study at least three programming languages used in industry. These include Python 3, Java and Javascript. Student will also become competent in HTML5 and CSS for web development and utilise SQL and PHP for other backend capabilities. A good grounding in a range of these skills will give students the foundation to go into a range of front-end, back-end or full stack development opportunities after completing the course. Other potential paths include web development and project management. Students will work on projects as individuals and collaboratively like developers in industry including Agile and scrum methodologies.
Product Development
Our students will apply their knowledge in a range of ways in the development of software and hardware based projects. This includes developing websites and stand alone applications and managing their deployment and ongoing maintenance. Students will also study emerging technology and use their engineering skills to create robots capable of not only movement, but with sensing and machine learning capabilities. With class sets of VR headsets students will use and develop new applications in augmented and virtual reality. We also house our own servers for games development projects and have a 3D printer system.
Business Practice and Applications
Like all T-Levels, Digital T-Levels look at how the sector works in practice. Business Practice and Applications looks at how business has been impacted by digital technology. The legislation and guidelines surrounding its use in wider industry and specifically within the digital sector. We look at how IT supports HR, R&D swell as logistics, marketing and finance.
We look at how digital sector businesses conduct user needs analyses and manage their stakeholders. Students will study how data systems are managed for small and large businesses as well as how the networks that link them function. Cyber security and risk management underpins much of what is studied in terms of onsite or online vulnerabilities in how businesses operate.
Overall this module will give an excellent foundation for how digital technologies and the sector weave through aspects of business and wider society.
