eolas/_meta/Topic_Log.md

# 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:

  - Error handling
  - Testing
  - I/O

## Bash

- 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

## 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

## JavaScript

Look into these new features:

- Proxy object
- `Object.hasOwn()`
- Top level `await`
- `Error.Prototype.cause()`
- Dynamic import
- Temporal
- `Promise.allSettled()`, `Promise.any()`

## TypeScript

- ~~Records~~
- ~~Mapped types~~
- SOLID principles OOP