Software Engineering Foundations

Software Engineering Foundations is the entry course of Africoders Premium Academy. It moves learners from beginner/intermediate programming knowledge toward professional software engineering practice: lifecycle thinking, Git collaboration, debugging, HTTP APIs, relational data, testing, architectural judgment, and production-aware workflow.

You will LEARN core engineering concepts, BUILD small verified slices, and GROW into habits that hold up when real users, flaky networks, and team review are involved.

Free Africoders Academy / YouTube material may be used as warm-up. This Premium course is the structured curriculum with practice, a required assignment, a checkpoint assessment, and a capstone that produces portfolio evidence.

## Further reading

- Git documentation — https://git-scm.com/doc - MDN HTTP overview — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Overview - MDN HTTP response status codes — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status - JSON RFC 8259 — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259 - SQLite documentation (portable SQL practice) — https://www.sqlite.org/docs.html - PostgreSQL tutorial (relational concepts) — https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial.html - OWASP SQL Injection — https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/SQL_Injection - PHPUnit assertions (example test style) — https://docs.phpunit.de/en/12.5/assertions.html - Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 — https://semver.org/