RT10-204: Foundation Programming

Students will gain knowledge of basic programming concepts that will be expanded in future courses. Understanding a general-purpose programming language will set the student up to learn how to work with a wide variety of applications including industrial controllers, motion control, robotics, and more. Numbering systems and terminology will be reviewed so that students can move into program flow, basic arithmetic, I/O, and hardware use. Students will use data types, functions, loops, and conditionals to gain operation knowledge of programming. Proper programming etiquette will be stressed as students complete a variety of projects that will challenge them to design, build from, and troubleshoot code.