Courses Required for Certificate                                                           
___CmSc 155 Fundamentals of Computing II, 3
___CIS 260JA Java, 3
___CIS 260VB Visual Basic or VB.NE, 3
___CmSc 374 Software Engineering, 3
___CmSc 390 Object Oriented Programming, 3
___Certificate Portfolio, 1

Total hours for Certificate, 13
 
Prerequisite: CmSc 150 and CIS 255 or equivalent experience.

This certificate requires competence in three object-oriented programming languages, preferably C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic or VB.NET. This requirement is satisfied by completing the CmSc 150, 155 sequence and completing two CIS 260 Programming Language courses. The prerequisite CIS 255 is a prerequisite for several of the CIS 260 courses. Students must have this prerequisite or have equivalent relational database experience.