Big ol' checklist of things to know. Mostly for my wife whom wants to get into programming, but could be for anyone entering. This is mostly focused on a web developer role.

Here is a skill legend, if these are not on line items they are on headers of sections

• 🚫 You shouldn't have to know this
• ⭐ You should have basic working knowledge, and know how to get around.
• ✨ You should know how this works for most use cases, and be able to execute without bingling
• 💫 You should be a master of this topic

Frameworks and Technologies

Tools

• git ✨
• The command line ⭐
• grep, sed, awk, tmux, vim, htop ⭐

Front end

• HTML 💫
• CSS 💫
• CSS Selectors 💫
• LESS or SCSS ✨
• The DOM ⭐
• JQuery ✨
• A 3rd party component library (bootstrap.js, material-ui, etc.) 💫
• 1 current client side framework (React, Angular, Vue) 💫
• JavaScript ✨
• A language that compiles into JavaScript ⭐

Backend

• 1 current server side framework (C# MVC, ExpressJS, Spring boot) 💫
• SQL (Structured Query Language) ✨
• 1 Relational database ⭐
• 1 Non-relational database ⭐
• 1 strong typed language (C#, Java, Scala, etc) ✨

Language Semantics 💫

• JavaScript gotchas (== vs ===, NaN vs undefined vs null, this, etc)
• Operators
• Methods
• Functions
• Variables
• Annonymous and Lambda functions
• Property getters and setters
• Generics

Theory

• Understanding datastuctures, and how to shape data efficently 💫
  • Array
  • Stack
  • Queue
  • Hashmap/Dictionary
  • Binary tree
• Language Parsers ✨
• Abstract Syntax Tree ✨
• Compilers ✨
• Managed vs non-managed languages ✨
• Object Oriented Programming and design 💫
• Software design patterns (Adapter, factory, facade, etc) 💫
• BigO for time complexity ⭐