CCNA Network Automation (Cisco Certified Network Associate)

Install node.js, an open source, cross‑platform javascript runtime powered by the v8 engine, on Mac OS via brew or a manual 64-bit Mac OS install and verify the version.

Explore Linux file management by listing directories, creating and editing a file, making it executable, changing ownership to root, and using move, rename, and copy operations across desktop and documents.

Explore regular expressions in linux using grep to filter and count occurrences. Apply patterns such as case sensitivity, end-of-line anchors, dot wildcard, and digit ranges with brackets.

Learn what software and software development are and why they matter in networking, enabling automated solutions to extend troubleshooting to Windows, Mac OS, and mobile devices.

Explore how the incremental model replaces the waterfall approach by delivering software in small increments with customer input, and how prototypes and the evolutionary model address final product development.

Explore the spiral model in software development, emphasizing iterative prototyping, starting small, expanding, and transitioning between stages, with a note that agile approaches are preferred today.

Explore the importance of continuous software testing across development, covering functional and non-functional testing, regression, black-box and white-box methods, security testing, and the basics of test-driven development.

Explore test driven development as an iterative cycle of writing tests before code, the red-green-refactor loop, and contrast inside-out and outside-in approaches to guide design and quality.

Master the Python interpreter basics, printing with single or double quotes in Python 3, exiting the interactive session with quit, and using Visual Studio Code to develop Python projects.

Learn to use Visual Studio Code as the development environment, create and run a Python program, and begin exploring data types and variables.

Learn how to concatenate strings and integers in Python by using the plus operator, converting numbers to strings, and checking types with type().

Learn how to format a double in python to a specific number of decimal places, using two or three decimal places with the format approach.

Explore Python data structures by using lists and dictionaries to store multiple values, access items with zero-based indexing, and apply len and negative indexing for hostnames.

Capture and store user input with the Python input function, assign it to a variable, and display a personalized hello to show how input is captured and reused.

Explore Python conditional statements, using if, elif, and else to control program flow, compare values with equality and inequality, and format code with colon and indentation in a code editor.

Set up and manage Python development environments by creating and activating virtual environments, installing and isolating packages with pip, and sharing a requirements file to reproduce setups.

Explore how webhooks enable real-time, event-driven communication between web applications, allowing automatic data delivery and seamless integration with payment gateways, email marketing, and syncing to external databases and data warehouses.

Explore REST payloads, including how requests and responses carry data, with JSON and XML formats; learn how GET retrieves data and how POST, PUT, and batch requests include payload data.

Install curl on Windows and learn to use it for transferring data to and from networking devices remotely, with get, post, put, patch, and delete requests and api examples.

Learn how to generate a basic authentication token for API access, log in with basic authentication, and use the token to retrieve and filter data such as books by isbn.

Learn how to modify a previously created file by using the echo command to append content, then stage, commit, and verify changes with git status and log.

Learn to manage development with git branching, create and switch branches, stage and commit changes, and check status to safeguard the master branch.

Learn to handle merge conflicts by creating a test branch, switching to master, performing a merge, inspecting conflicts with git log, and resolving them by editing conflicting lines and saving.

Set up a GitHub account, create a private repository for beginners, configure git with name and email, and push changes using a personal access token.

Start and verify a docker container from a bash script, stop and restart web servers, and view the container's IP in a local browser to confirm the app runs.