Outline of the Year

Basics

Tools of Development

Git and GitHub
Terminals and command line interfaces
Environment variables, pipenv

Advanced Functions

Functions as variables
Higher order functions
Closure
Decorators

From Waiting to `await`ing

Networking and Blocking Operations

IP addresses and ports, clients and servers
Sockets (echo, tic-tac-toe)

A Classic Solution

Threads and locking
Callbacks

Concurrency and Parallelism

Event loop and workers
Implement an event loop?

Switching Up the Language

Javascript (Typescript) with node.js, introduced with discord bots?
Concurrency in js: callbacks, promises, async/await

Getting Real Work Done

Networking Redux

The networking stack
Http

Express and Flask

Making a web server

Storing Data

Why databases?, relational: sql, document: firestore
Cache/in-memory/key-value: redis

Using Services from Other People

Google Cloud platform

Unfortunately, Front-end Exists

html and css
js frameworks lol

Other Things to Learn

Cereal

json

Regular Expressions

basic patterns
groups, things to be careful of

Image Processing

digital images, pillow
ocr

C

syntax quick overview, pointers, structs, strings
arrays, memory management
implementing data structures