Students acquire knowledge of structured programming techniques and concepts appropriate to developing executable programs and creating appropriate documentation. Students analyze the social responsibility of business and industry regarding the significant issues relating to the environment, ethics, health, safety, and diversity in society and in the workplace as it relates to computer programming. Students apply technical skills to address business applications of emerging technologies to learn the basics of programming in the language of Java. This course is recommended for students planning to take Computer Science in high school.

The activities are designed to support familiarity and increasing fluency with computational creativity and computational thinking.