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Learning Topic Log

Python

• Research: best practice for separating projects into conda environments like npm

• Read-up more on types: what does it mean for Python to be dynamically typed. What is type-hinting really?

  • Use provided pdfs and John's books

• Is dictionary.values()/ dictionary.keys() of type list?

• Is dictionary.items() a list of tuples for key, value?

• How to run test suites via VSCode?

  BBC Course, remaining topics:

  • Entrypoint modules
  • Error handling
  • Testing
  • I/O

Bash

• Best way to run a command in a script - is it to echo it?
• How to handle the return value of a command
  • If it returns multiple values, how to isolate and loop through them
• What the weird variable symbols mean like errors and stuff
• Read up properly about find and read
• .list file extension
• Error handling
• Splitting strings
• Awk
  • https://dane-bulat.medium.com/the-awk-programming-language-an-introduction-7035d343cd30
• Why do we have to do "$var" instead of $var or ${var} at times
• The test program (does it actually use the word 'test' or is this implicit?) and its use of -z and and -e flags

Linux

• /dev/null in greater depth

SQL

• What is a schema in MySQL/ SQL ?
• Proper definition of "migrating a database"?

GraphQL

• What is a transformer?

AWS

• Start reading more specifically about key services: Lambda, step functions, CloudFormation, Elasticache, CloudFront, CloudWatch
• Do basic exercises from Amazon on aspects I am interested in to get a practical feel for it
• Elastic Beanstalk and how it differs from using multiple different services at once
• AWS Amplify
• Deploy my own website on AWS

NodeJS

• Build examples of read stream and write stream
• Can you override parent class methods in JS subclass?
  • If not in JS, can you do this in TS?

Git

• What is rebasing?
• What is cherry-picking?
• GitFlow methodology in the context of releases, hotfixes etc
• How can you rollback without a hard-reset, i.e. how can you keep the future state (from the point of view of the rolled-back branch) accessible?
• Tagging (also in relation to Git flow)
• See if there is an advanced Git course on LinkedIn

JavaScript

Look into these new features:

• Proxy object
• Object.hasOwn()
• Top level await
• Error.Prototype.cause()
• Dynamic import
• Temporal
• Promise.allSettled(), Promise.any()