IT for beginners | IT for dummies | IT for non-IT
What you'll learn
- Have a good understanding of the basics of IT
- Improve their communication about IT and software development
- Understand how an application is built up
- Know the difference between frontend and backend
- Know when something is a frontend or a backend issue
- Understand databases and have seen some database management systems
- Understand cloud and IoT
- Know what roles there are in the IT field
Requirements
- None, only a laptop, tablet or smartphone
Description
At work they often talk about APIs, frontend, backend, application design and all sorts of technical terms, assuming that you know what this is. And maybe you even do know what this is to manage basic conversations, without truly understanding it (pun intended). Would you like to know more about IT? This course will teach the basic concepts of IT in easy language.
After this course you will:
- Understand the IT landscape
- Know how software is built up
- Have a basic understanding of what code looks like
- Understand the software development process
- Know what roles are common in the software development field
This course if for:
- Anyone with a non-IT background that is working in an IT environment
- Non-technical people that communicate with IT professionals a lot
- Anyone that wants to understand more about the basics of IT
This course is not for:
- People with a lot of IT experience
- People that hope to learn programming in this course (though it is a good course to take before learning how to program)
If there are any topics that you'd like to have discussed as well, or that you want to have more in-depth knowledge of, please let me know and I'd love to add them to this course!
Who this course is for:
- People that need to know more about IT, but have a non-technical or non-IT background
- People that want to explore whether a career switch to IT is interesting for them
Instructor
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- 30,529 Students
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I'm Maaike from Bright Boost. I am a professional software developer and IT trainer. I have worked with several languages: Java, .NET, Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, COBOL and some others.
I am very passionate about software and teaching IT to non-IT professionals. I have helped hundreds of non-IT professionals to understand IT and boost their careers/business since 2015.