Unlocking the Foundations: A Deep Dive into ALX Africa’s Month 6 Curriculum

Month 6 Overview: Mastering JavaScript, Python, Configuration Management, SSH, Web Servers, and Network Interaction

0x12. JavaScript — Warm Up

Learning Objectives:

• Understand why JavaScript programming is powerful.
• Execute JavaScript scripts and comprehend the basics.
• Grasp variable and constant usage (var, const, let).
• Explore JavaScript data types.
• Implement conditional statements and loops.
• Learn the fundamentals of functions.
• Understand the scope of variables.
• Work with arithmetic operators and dictionaries.
• Master file import in JavaScript.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret files on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using node (version 14.x).
• Follow semistandard compliance and adhere to coding rules.
• Create executable files.
• Write a README.md file.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• No use of var.

0x13. JavaScript — Objects, Scopes and Closures

Learning Objectives:

• Grasp JavaScript object creation.
• Understand ‘this’ in JavaScript.
• Define ‘undefined’ in JavaScript.
• Comprehend variable type and scope importance.
• Explore closures and prototypes.
• Inherit objects from one another.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret files on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using node (version 14.x).
• Follow semistandard compliance and adhere to coding rules.
• Create executable files.
• Write a README.md file.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• No use of var.

0x0F. Python — Object-relational mapping

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the awesomeness of Python programming.
• Connect to a MySQL database from a Python script.
• Perform SELECT and INSERT operations in MySQL from Python.
• Grasp the concept of Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).
• Map a Python class to a MySQL table.
• Create a Python Virtual Environment.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret/compile files on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using python3 (version 3.8.5).
• Execute files with MySQLdb version 2.0.x and SQLAlchemy version 1.4.x.
• Follow PEP 8 style guide (pycodestyle version 2.8.*).
• Create executable files.
• Write a README.md file.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• Document modules, classes, and functions.

0x02. AirBnB clone — MySQL

Learning Objectives:

• Understand Unit testing in a large project.
• Explore *args and **kwargs in Python.
• Handle named arguments in a function.
• Create and manage a MySQL database.
• Implement Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).
• Use environment variables.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret/compile files on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using python3 (version 3.8.5).
• Execute files with MySQL 8.0.
• Follow PEP 8 style guide (pycodestyle version 2.8.*).
• Create executable files.
• Write a README.md file.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• Document modules, classes, and functions.

0x0A. Configuration management

Background: Explore the importance of configuration management, emphasizing Puppet.

Requirements:

• Interpret files on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
• Install Puppet 5.5.
• Install puppet-lint (version 2.1.1).
• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Follow Puppet syntax and conventions.
• Write a README.md file.

0x0B. SSH

Learning Objectives:

• Grasp the concept of a server and its location.
• Understand SSH and create an SSH RSA key pair.
• Connect to a remote host using an SSH RSA key pair.
• Explore the advantages of using #!/usr/bin/env bash.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret files on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
• Create executable files.
• Write a README.md file.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• Use #!/usr/bin/env bash.

0x0C. Web server

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the main role of a web server.
• Comprehend child processes and parent processes.
• Explore HTTP requests and DNS.
• Learn about DNS Record Types.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret files on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
• Create executable files.
• Write a README.md file.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• Use #!/usr/bin/env bash.

0x0D. Web stack debugging #0

Learning Objectives:

• Master web stack debugging.
• Install Docker.
• Utilize curl for HTTP requests.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret files on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
• Create executable files.
• Write a README.md file.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• Use #!/usr/bin/env bash.

0x10. Python — Network #0

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the fundamentals of URLs and HTTP.
• Fetch internet resources using urllib.
• Decode urllib body response.
• Use the Python package ‘requests’.
• Make HTTP GET and POST requests.
• Fetch JSON resources.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret files on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• Use #!/usr/bin/python3.
• Follow PEP 8 style guide (pycodestyle version 2.8.*).
• Document modules, classes, and functions.

0x11. Python — Network #1

Learning Objectives:

• Fetch internet resources with urllib.
• Decode urllib body response.
• Use the Python package ‘requests’.
• Make HTTP GET and POST requests.
• Fetch and manipulate JSON resources.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret/compile files on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using python3 (version 3.8.5).
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• Use #!/usr/bin/python3.
• Follow PEP 8 style guide (pycodestyle version 2.8.*).
• Document modules, classes, and functions.

0x0F. Load balancer

Concepts:

• Load balancer.
• Web stack debugging.

Background: Improve web stack redundancy using two additional servers.

Requirements:

• Use allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs.
• Interpret files on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
• Create executable files.
• Write a README.md file.
• Ensure length compliance with wc.
• Use #!/usr/bin/env bash.