Roadmap Overview

Preface

This roadmap is a personal project that I'm working on as a way to document my journey learning about the world of systems and programming. While I have done some self-studying and know a few things about systems, I'm nothing more than a jack of all trades with shallow knowledge. But all of the knowledge and experience I've gained over the past 3 years has led me to creating this roadmap that I plan to follow.
When I first started to self-study programming, I knew nothing about what was out there, I knew that I was interested in software engineering and robotics, but I hadn't the slightest idea of how to get there. Now I know the path I need to follow to get there, but first I wanted to pursue my interests in Systems, Networking and General Programming.
That's when I realized that this was the perfect time to master the fundamentals starting all the way from System Administration with Linux to covering Computer Networking then Cloud Technologies and finally diving right back into Computer Science.

I am sharing this roadmap of mine as a way to showcase my learning journey starting from Systems & Networking to Computer Engineering and I hope that others who read this may find something that they can take away for themselves.

The Main Topics

The roadmap, as of now, consists of 5 main topics with each major category containing their own sub-topic.

The intended flow of the roadmap is to go through each major category and work on every sub-topic then do the associated projects for each section. All of this culminates in a final capstone project that will put your understanding of the category to the absolute test.

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The philosophy of this roadmap is taking the long-game approach to studying. A big mistake we often make in learning is that we will cover a subject just enough to scrape by. While you don't have to know everything about a subject to be able to do interesting things, when it comes to our foundations true understanding is essential.

So, to remedy this, we will cover each major topic in just enough depth to get a strong grasp of the basics. The blue button behind every sub-topic will link to the full article in the Lab-Book. Meanwhile the actual sub-topic will cover a brief summary of the course, video, or book we will be working through. It will also include relevant resources. While not pictured here, the Alternatives section will provide other courses/videos that work as a roughly equal substitute, but they may also both be taken.

The best way to truly cement one's knowledge on a topic is by doing, and so the turquoise-colored checkmark ✅ next to the sub-topic will be where we begin our section project work. Lastly, we arrive at the Capstone Project ☑️, this is a section dedicated to putting all of the knowledge we have learned to the test. The Capstone Project will either be a single large project or a series of projects that puts everything we have learned together. Lastly while not pictured, there will be a dark-blue checkmark next to courses/books that are optional but may be worthwhile depending on your use-case.

✨Personal Note

Throughout this journey I will do my best to be as objective as I can. However, I am still in the middle of my learning and I am only human. While technology itself is neutral, the way we use it, how we think about it, what we think is best moving forward and so on, are things that are human viewpoints. There are of course times when things are simply 0 or 1, but as you go through your own journey you will find that you will have to come up with your own definitions and reasons for doing things backed by personal preference or well researched analysis or simply that's the way things are done. 
So, to carry on with that spirit I will place the sparkling star icon✨ whenever certain notes or topics are things I am speaking my own mind on. I encourage you to come up with your own analysis or thoughts on those topics.

The Roadmap

In The Roadmap below. All of the time estimates are based on studying the material for 2-3 hours per day.
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System & Networking Fundamentals

A system can be defined as a set of parts working together, and a network as a group or system of interconnected things.

The aim of this path is to familiarize ourselves with Linux & Computer networking. We'll learn to both configure and administer our very own Linux Servers, write powerful scripts, and come away with a sys-admin’s eye and toolset. We’ll also gain a solid foundation in computer networking, uncovering the Blackbox that the internet often seems to be, learning about various protocols, topologies, and architectures.
At the end of this path, we’ll be able to call ourselves a jr sysadmin and jr network-engineer.

Linux Fundamentals

Networking Fundamentals

Intro to Programming & Automation

This is by no means an introduction to computer science, that will be something to cover later. Instead, this path is all about easing us into computer programming. We'll be learning about the absolute basics of programming and some automation as well. We'll also cover Databases learning about CRUD and Data-In/Data-Out, then finally rounding things out with version control.
By the end of this path we'll have taken our first steps in programming.
There's still a long way to go before we can call ourselves software developers much less engineers, but bit-by-bit we are getting there.

Intro To Programming

Containers & Orchestration

Docker

Kubernetes

Intro to Computer Science

Programming

Hardware Fundamentals

Computer Systems

Systems

Linux Programming

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Created 31 October 2023 09:53:11 by 01Blu3
Updated 9 January 2024 17:28:46 by 01Blu3