Prep

The CYF+ Immersive Engineering Programme is an intensive three month course. There’s a lot to get through and you’ll need to hit the ground running. To prepare for this exciting opportunity, you will:

Linux

• Take this Unix 101 course (and then try 102)
• Print out this Linux-Cheat-Sheet

Go

• Learn the basics of the Go programming language: Get Started - The Go Programming Language
• Read this, you might find it useful for working through your first projects: How to use the fmt package in Golang
• And optionally Learn Go with tests

Projects

Complete the prep and first two projects from the Immersive Go course

• Prep
• CLI Files
• http-auth

Reading

Dip in to some longer books — but don’t feel you need to read the whole lot!

• Google - Site Reliability Engineering
• The Unix Tools Philosophy
• The Phoenix Project

Fun

• Play the Bandit