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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()`