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IT for beginners | IT for non-IT | IT explained simply (Udemy.com)

Everything all non-technical professionals in an IT environment should know.

Created by: Maaike van Putten

Last updated December 2025

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What you will 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

How it compares

Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 20% of them
  • Reviews4,846#114 of 1,183 by number of reviews
  • Length1.3 hoursshorter than 93% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 59% of them

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Course 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!




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Instructor Details

Maaike van Putten

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.

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Reviews

4.3

4,846 ratings on Udemy

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By Karla Franssiela Morones De la Rosa on 8/25/2025

The tasks are not well described, two of them ask for a "draw" and Udemy doesn't even allow to "draw" or attach a file. The SQL example is just a waste of time, it could be better with more "real life" examples instead of an exercise, I don't think that's useful for beginners, and it is boring for non-beginners (some of us are taking this course

By Ankit Srivastava on 11/28/2024

This course is designed for absolute beginners, offering clear and concise explanations of the fundamental concepts in IT. It provides short, easy-to-understand descriptions that help newcomers grasp the basics of the IT landscape, from key technologies to common practices, without feeling overwhelmed. Perfect for anyone starting their journey into the world of Information Technology.

By Hồng Anh FX29331 Thạch on 10/16/2024

Khoá học này rất thú vị, nó giúp tôi hiểu thêm về các nghề trong CNTT, vai trò và nhiệm vụ của từng người trong mỗi công việc và sự ảnh hưởng của họ đến mạng xã hội và đời sống hiện nay, và thêm 1 số dự án, phương pháp và cách làm của mỗi cái. Đây là 1 khoá học tuyệt vời, nó rất tuyệt vời với tôi.

By Matan Ozer on 11/9/2023

every thing rely love how the techer over explain the course by a lot of example or story ,"jokes" that really help on the final and she have a lot of energy vib and that is important for me because you learning new thing and same time can be hard to brainstorming and maaike van putten is just great thank you !

By Anonymized User on 5/22/2023

The course is easy to follow. There are also examples for me to better understand abstract concepts. I have a small suggestion, though. I think you should provide a definition for each term. For example, I saw the term "user stories" at the very beginning of the course but you only provided its definition in session 31st. Thanks a lot for a very informative course!

By Jade Wilson on 4/28/2023

The course was insightful and gives a good foundation of the IT Basics. A few recommendations will be to revise the assignment questions as they were a bit unclear as to what it required. The sound of the videos were low and I struggled to hear. It may just be on my side though. All in all a good course.

By Alicja Wujda-Wala on 12/30/2022

It's good for someone who doesn't have a clue about IT, e.g. Junior IT Recruiter, Junior IT PMA, or if you need an emergency source to learn about IT basics quickly. To make it more valuable, I would add some resources/notes in case someone wants to know more about particular topic. Anyway, it meets my expectations for a ~1,5h course.

By Erica Kane on 4/7/2022

I liked how simple and accessible the information was for me (someone who knew nearly nothing about IT.) I would say that the assignments are not very reflective of the information that we go over. For example, I did not feel prepared for the frontend/backend assignment. I otherwise did learn a lot and am happy for this class.

By Sophie Sorel on 12/6/2020

Perfect to understand the IT landscape.

By Lesley Lentjes on 11/27/2020

Heel fijn!

By Shelby Peterson on 11/25/2020

It's somewhat hard to understand her, and she utilizes terms that I do not understand yet to explain what something is. *Edit* As I moved past the first 2 sections, it did become more valuable for me as it walked through more of the IT (Database and Server) stuff. I am in a Product Management role, so I am pretty familiar with the first two sections. I am not a technical Product Manager so this was helpful. I think it would be worthwhile to dive a little deeper/add another section that went more in to database structure and consolidated table stuff.

By Judith ketelaers on 11/15/2020

Ik vond het super interessant maar wel erg veel informatie en heel technisch. Ook wat moeilijker te volgen omdat het in het engels is. Maar toch veel van geleerd

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Overall Score : 86 / 100