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, but its worth knowing about
• ⭐ Something you should know of, and its basic applications
• ✨ You should know how this works for most use cases, and be able to execute with only minimal bingling
• 💫 You should be a master of this topic

Lingo 💫

• API
• Refactor
• Bug
• CMS
• DevOps
• "Batteries Included"
• "Time box"
• Continuous Intergraton
• Continuous Delivery
• SCM
• VCS

Frameworks and Technologies

Tools

• Souce Control ✨
• git ✨
• The command line ⭐
• grep, sed, awk, tmux, vim, htop ⭐
• Package managers ✨
• Compilers ✨
• REPL ⭐
• Debuggers ✨
• linters ✨

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 ⭐
• ajax ✨
• fetch ✨
• HTTP status codes 💫
• Cookies ✨
• HTTP headers ✨
• Browser debugging tools (chrome, firefox, ieedge) 💫
• Polyfills 💫
• Browser compatibility of APIs and features ✨
• Front end performance stratergies ✨
  • Bundling
  • Minification
  • Compression
  • Image compression
  • Lazy loading
  • Code splitting

Backend

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

Markup formats

• json 💫
• xml ✨
• markdown ⭐

APIs

• REST 💫
• SOAP ✨
• GraphQL ⭐
• OData 🚫

Languages

• 1 strong typed language (C#, Java, Scala, etc) ✨
• 1 dynamic language (javascript, ruby, python, etc)
• 1 scripting language (bash, powershell, etc)

Semantics 💫

• Operators
• Methods
• Functions
• Variables
• Annonymous and Lambda functions
• Property getters and setters
• Generics
• Closures
• Regular Expressions aka regex ✨

Theory

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

Infrastructure

Network

• OSI model ⭐
• TCP 💫
• HTTP 💫
• IP ⭐
• UDP ⭐
• Latency ⭐

Components

• Load Balancer ✨
• Virtual Machines ⭐
• Storage types (magnetic, solid state, SAN, NAS) ⭐
• Content Delivery Network (CDN) ✨
• Containers ⭐
• Container orchestrators ⭐
• Kubernetes ⭐

DevOps ⭐

• Configuration as code
• Chef or puppet 🚫
• Cloud management tools (terraform, Azure resource manager, AWS cloud formation templates)
• Self-Hosted Build systems (jenkins, cruse control) ⭐
• Cloud build systems (travisci, appveyor, circleci, azure pipelines) ✨

JavaScript

• npm 💫
• globally installed tools npm install -g 💫
• yarn ⭐
• esmodules 💫
• commonJS modules 💫
• node_modules directory 💫
• unpkg ⭐
• JavaScript gotchas 💫
  • this
  • === vs ==
  • semicolon insertion
  • 0 == "0" // true
  • 0 === "0" // false
• ES5 vs ES6 (aka ES2015) 💫
• features of ES2016 ✨
• features of ES2017 ⭐
• destructuring 💫
• ES6 classes 💫
• string interpolation 💫
• Object spread ✨
• Babel 💫
• let vs var 💫
• eslint ⭐

git

In english you can describe:

• A git commit 💫
• A git rebase vs merge 💫
• A git branch 💫
• Forking ✨
• Merging 💫
• Merge conflicts ✨
• Resolving a merge conflict ⭐