Piscine Go curriculum

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Week One

Quest 1

Introduction to shell

Notions: basic usage and interaction with a command line terminal.

Videos:

• 1-2 curl with the GitHub api and Example of shell file
• 1-3 touch, chmod and echo
• 1-4 find and grep
• 1-5 cut, sed and tr
• 1-6 jq and wc

Exercices:

• introduction
• make-it-better
• to-git-or-not-to-git
• who-are-you
• cl-camp1
• cl-camp2
• cl-camp3
• cl-camp4
• cl-camp5
• cl-camp6
• cl-camp7
• cl-camp8
• now-get-to-work

Quest 2

Introduction to Go Lang and basic programmation concepts

Notions: Variables declaration, Loops, if and else statement, usage of z01.PrintRune function.

Videos:

• 02-01-If and Else Statements in Go
• 02-02-ForLoops
• 02-03-PrintRune function
• 02-04-Variables Declaration and ascii

Exercices:

• printalphabet
• printreversealphabet
• prindigits
• isnegative
• printcomb
• printcomb2
• printnbr
• printcombn

Quest 3

Introduction to Go Lang and basic programmation concepts II

Notions: String Manupulation, Range Loops, Pointers, Modulo and Division relative to computer science.

Videos:

• 03-01-StringsManipulation
• 03-02-RangeLoop
• 03-03-Pointers on variables
• 03-04-Modulo and Division

Exercices:

• pointone
• ultimatepointone
• divmod
• ultimatedivmod
• printstr
• strlen
• swap
• strrev
• basicatoi
• basicatoi2
• atoi
• sortintegerable

Exam 1 (4hours)

Basic functions and programs skills evaluation, based on Quest 2 and Quest 3

Raid 1 - Square Drawing

First Group project. Problem resolution. Usage of first knowledge (loop and if/else)

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Week Two

Quest 4

Algorithm concepts

Notions: Iterative and recursive programmation

Videos:

• 04-01-Iterativity and Recursivity

Exercices:

• iterativefactorial
• recursivefactorial
• iterativepower
• recursivepower
• fibonacci
• sqrt
• isprime
• findnextprime
• eightqueens

Quest 5

Application of previously viewed concepts.

Notions: String Manipulation and medium-advanced algorithms

Videos:

• 05-01-Runes, Bytes and Strings

Exercices:

• firstrune
• nrune
• lastrune
• index
• compare
• toupper
• tolower
• capitalize
• isalpha
• isnumeric
• islower
• isupper
• isprintable
• concat
• basicjoin
• join
• printnbrbase
• atoibase

Quest 6

Usage of OS.Args

Notions: Arguments manipulation in programs

Videos:

• 06-01-Os.Args

Exercices:

• printprogramname
• printparams
• revparams
• sortparams

Quest 7

The Memory Allocation in GoLang

Notions: Usage of Make and Append

Videos:

• 07-01-Make and Append methods

Exercices:

• appendrange
• makerange
• concatparams
• splitwhitespaces
• printwordstables
• convertbase
• split

Exam 2 (4hours)

Basic functions and programs skills evaluation, based on all the quests from 2 to 6

Raid 2 - Sudoku

Second Group project. Problem resolution. Usage of Memory manipulation tools

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Week Three

Quest 8

Introduction to Structures and advanced types in GoLang

Notions: Creation of struct types and file manipulation (Open, Read, Close methods)

Videos:

• 08-01-Structures in Go
• 08-02-File Manipulation in go

Exercices:

• bool
• point
• displayfile
• cat
• ztail

Quest 9

Functions as argument

Notions: Advance function prototyping

Videos:

• 09-01-Functions as Arguments

Exercices:

• foreach
• map
• any
• countif
• issorted
• doop
• sortwordarr
• advancedsortwordarr

Quest 10

Hackathon

Notions: All previously viewed concepts in team work

Exercices:

• rot14
• abort
• collatzcountdown
• comcheck
• enigma
• pilot
• fixthemain
• compact
• activebits
• max
• join
• unmatch

Exam 3 (4hours)

Basic functions and programs skills evaluation, based on all the quests from 2 to 8

Raid 3 - File Reader

Second Group project. Problem resolution. File manipulation based on Raid 1

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Week Four

Quest 11

Linked lists in GoLang

Notions: Pointers manipulation and data structure

Videos:

• 11-01-Linked Lists Introduction

Exercices:

• listpushback
• listpushfront
• listsize
• listlast
• listclear
• listat
• listreverse
• listforeach
• listforeachif
• listfind
• listremoveif
• listmerge
• listsort
• sortlistinsert
• sortedlistmerge

Quest 12

Binary Trees

Notions: Advanced Data Structure using binary trees

Videos:

• 12-01-Introduction to Binary Trees

Exercices:

• btreeinsertdata
• btreeapplyinorder
• btreeapplypreorder
• btreesearchitem
• btreelevelcount
• btreeisbinary
• btreeapplylevel
• btreemax
• btreemin
• btreetransplant
• btreedeletenode

Exam 4 - Final Exam (8hours)

Functions and programs skills evaluation, based on all the quests from 2 to 11