ALX - Software Engineering

(ALX - SE Certificate - Qaasim Emeran.pdf)

What I've learnt:

• Technical Writing
• Collaboration
• The Framework
• Whiteboarding
• Mock Interviews
• Time Management
• Interview algorithm practice

Back-end Specialization phase:

• Modern JavaScript
  • ES6
  • TypeScript
  • Node JS basic
  • Unittests
• Python
  • Variable annotations
  • Async
  • Unittests and integration tests
• Storage
  • Advanced MySQL
  • NoSQL
  • Redis
• Back-end
  • Pagination
  • Caching
  • i18n
  • Queuing system in JS
• User Data
  • Personal data
  • Authentication - Basic & Session
  • User authentication
• Portfolio project

Foundations phase:

First Trimester:

• Intro to:
  • Emacs
  • Vim
  • Git/Github
• C
  • Basics
  • Functions
  • Pointers
  • Data Structures
    • Singly Linked Lists
    • Arrays
• Bit Manipulation
• Variadic Functions
• Memory Management
• File Redirection
• Compilation
• Heap/Stack
• Linux
  • Basics
  • Permissions
  • Redirections
  • Syscalls
• Static Libraries
• Social Media
• Public Speaking/Stand ups

Second Trimester:

• Python
• Basics
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Interpreted Languages
• Test Driven Development
• Error Handling
• I/O
• Web Scraping
• C
  • Data Structures
    • Stacks/Queues
    • Doubly Linked Lists
    • Hash Tables
    • Binary Trees
  • Algorithms
    • Sorting
    • Big O
  • Dynamic Libraries
• Linux
  • Processes and Signals
  • Scripting
  • Command Line
• Databases
  • SQL
  • MySQL
• Systems Engineering
  • Open Systems Interconnection Model
  • TCP/IP
• Airbnb Project
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JSON
  • Unit Testing

Third Trimester:

• Systems Engineering/Devops
  • SSH
  • SSL/TLS
  • HTTP/S
  • Webstack Debugging
  • Servers
  • Web Servers (Nginx)
  • Application Servers (Gunicorn)
  • Configuration Management (Puppet)
  • Load Balancers
  • Postmortems
  • Networking
  • Monitoring
• C
  • Algorithms
    • Searching
• Airbnb Project
  • Javascript
  • JQuery
  • Deployment
  • APIs
    • Flask
• Hack Days
• Python
  • ORMs (SQLAlchemy)
  • Templating (Jinja2)