Scarlett-Dwina-Adrian Projects Hub

The place where three aspiring engineers learn about new things in the software and/or hardware engineering world. That world is big and it would be nice to know a bit or two about it.

Technologies

Linux Command Line Interface

• Crash course
• should learn a bit of this to use Git: navigate through files using terminal
• For Windows users, don't use Windows LOL. Jk, go here

Git

• Fundamentals
  • Push, pull, merge, rebase
  • Want to use gh-pages? Here's a quick guide to help out with setting up!
    • gh pages

Python

• Fundamentals
  • Let's do Python 3, Python 2 will be dead by 2020
  • At a glance, Python is a scripting language
  • Syntactic sugars: decorators, list comprehensions, generators, closures, lambda functions
  • Crash course
• Web frameworks
  • Django (full-stack), powers Google, Instagram, Reddit, and Spotify
  • Flask (server-side)
• Machine learning
  • Tensorflow
  • Scikit Learn
  • Keras
  • NLTK
• Big data manipulation
  • Pandas
  • Numpy
  • Scipy
  • iPython
• Distributed queueing system
  • Celery
  • Huey
• Library management system
  • Pipenv
• Database tools
  • SQL Alchemy
  • Alembic Migration Tool
  • PyMongo

Ruby

• Fundamentals
  • Ruby is pretty much a more magical version of Python (more syntactic sugars, more test-driven)
  • Everything is an object!
  • Syntactic sugar: functional programming (map, reduce, each), do blocks, :symbols, object instantiations
  • Crash course
• Web frameworks
  • The famous Ruby on Rails (full-stack), powers Amazon, Hulu, and Groupon
  • Sinatra (server-side)
• Library management system
  • RubyGem
• Databases
  • ActiveRecord
• Geography support for Ruby on Rails
  • Geocoder

JavaScript

• Fundamentals
  • Let's do the ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) dialect and up
  • The only supported language that lives in web browsers
  • Syntactic sugar: default parameters, arrow functions, promises, scoped variables (let and const), functional programming (map, reduce, forEach)
  • Asynchronous vs Synchronous programming
  • Crash course
• Frontend (client-side) frameworks (lives in the browser)
  • React by Facebook
  • AngularJS by Google
  • Vue.js
  • Ember.js
• Server-side JavaScript platform
  • Node.js
• Web frameworks
  • Sails.js (full-stack)
  • Express.js (server-side)
• State management containers
  • Redux
  • Breeze.js

Server-Client API Helpers

• Query languages
  • GraphQL, used to unify API communications between server and client

Go

C/C++

• Switching from Java to C++ (a true struggle of mine) -C++ 4 Java Programmers

Database and Caching Stores

• Relational SQL databases
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB, pretty much MySQL without Oracle's shenanigans
  • SQLite (for learning)
• NoSQL (Not-Only SQL) databases
  • MongoDB
  • Apache Cassandra
• In-memory stores
  • Redis, used for caching usually
  • Memcached, devs tend to use Redis nowadays tho, but really good to be aware of it

Data Structures and Algorithms

Distributed Systems

Virtualization, Containerization, Orchestration, and the Dev-Ops Culture

• Introduction to Virtualization and Containerization
• Containerization
  • Docker, be very familiar with this, it's used pretty much everywhere now :)
• Orchestration
  • Kubernetes
  • Nomad
• Deployment and Infrastrcture
  • Ansible, helps software to be installed in the cloud
  • Terraform, create your cloud infrastructure with code

Operating Systems

Hardware/Embedded Systems

Responsive Web Design

• Why does it matter? (because it really does)
  • Responsive design
• Time to rethink how pages should be divided -> use
  • CSS Grid Layout
• Play around with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Playerground
  • Guide to Flexbox

Practice Interview Questions

-Front-end practice -Github