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Software Engineering Foundations

LEARN track: build the professional fundamentals every Africoders engineer needs before specialised tracks.

1 course 6–10 weeks 10 modules 30 lessons ~40 hours
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Why builders choose this path

Structured curriculum

Week-by-week modules with lessons built for African builders shipping real products.

Assignments & projects

Practice work and capstone-style projects that prove skill — not just video watching.

Certificate on completion

Finish the path requirements and earn a verifiable Africoders Academy certificate.

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What you’ll walk away with

Outcomes from the lead course in this track — the skills and proof you can show employers and clients.

  • Explain the major stages of a software development lifecycle and identify the engineering activities required at each stage
  • Translate a vague product request into testable requirements and a thin delivery slice
  • Use Git to create meaningful commits, work on branches, open a pull-request style review narrative, and resolve simple merge conflicts safely
  • Apply a repeatable debugging loop: reproduce, hypothesise, isolate, fix, and prevent regression
  • Call HTTP APIs with correct methods, status-code reasoning, JSON payloads, and basic auth/validation awareness
  • Model simple relational data with keys, joins, and constraints, and write practical SQL for create/read/update scenarios

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Beginner Premium Academy

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...

10 modules 30 lessons 40 hours By Africoders

₦25,000

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Syllabus from Software Engineering Foundations. Open the course page for previews, assignments, and checkout.

Week 1: How Software Engineering Works

3 lessons
  • The professional engineering loop Preview 25m
  • Requirements, design, and delivery 28m
  • Quality, risk, and ownership 26m

Week 2: Programming Fundamentals

3 lessons
  • Variables, control flow, and functions 30m
  • Data structures you will actually use 32m
  • Reading and writing maintainable code 27m

Week 3: Git and Version Control

3 lessons
  • Repositories, commits, and history 24m
  • Branches and pull requests 28m
  • Resolving conflicts safely 30m

Week 4: Debugging and Problem Solving

3 lessons
  • Reproducing bugs 26m
  • Using logs and breakpoints 29m
  • Rubber-duck and isolation techniques 25m

Week 5: APIs and HTTP

3 lessons
  • HTTP methods and status codes 27m
  • JSON payloads and headers 26m
  • Calling APIs from tools and code 31m

Week 6: Databases

3 lessons
  • Relational thinking 28m
  • SQL essentials 32m
  • Migrations and schema change hygiene 26m

Week 7: Testing Fundamentals

3 lessons
  • Why tests matter in production 24m
  • Unit vs integration smoke 28m
  • Writing your first assertions 30m

Week 8: Software Architecture Basics

3 lessons
  • Layers and boundaries 28m
  • Coupling and cohesion 26m
  • When not to over-engineer 22m

+ 2 more modules — see full syllabus

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