Systems Apprenticeship Skills Checksheet, v1.1

APPRENTICE NAME _________________________

MENTOR NAME _____________________________

APPRENTICE START DATE ___________________

Print out this skills sheet, and use it to guide your Vokal Systems apprenticeship. Have your mentor sign off by placing their initials next to each item. Sign-offs can involve pair-programming, verbal Q&A, observation on a project, or any other means.

Note that you also must complete the Shared Skills Checksheet to officially complete your apprenticeship.

Bullet points are suggestions of material to cover in a sign-off, along with any relevant reading material or tutorials for particular items. Example assignments are available in the Labs.

_____ Systems Developer tools

• IDE/Editor (Sublime Text, Emacs, PyCharm, etc)
• Docker (or Boot2Docker)
• Docker Compose
• SSH & Fabric

Useful reading:

• Dockerfile Reference
• Docker Command Line Reference
• Docker Run Reference
• Docker Compose Reference
• Fabric

_____ Systems Continuous Integration

• Creating and maintaining .yml files for Drone
• Creating and maintaining Docker images for Drone
• Code coverage reporting (Coverage)

_____ Systems Test tools

• Basic unit testing
  • Python: unittest, nose, Django
  • Go: go test or gocheck

_____ Systems Languages and Concepts

• Interfaces (Go)

Useful reading:

• Learn Python the Hard Way
• Python OOP
• PEP 20
• A Tour of Go
• Go by Example

_____ Systems Style and Documentation

• Read the Systems Coding Standards
• Search Documentation and use effectively
  • Python
  • Go

_____ SQL

• Components of a query (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, FROM, WHERE, etc)
• Grouping and aggregate functions
• Difference between joins

Useful Reading:

• sqlcourse.com
• w3schools
• SQL: Joins

I hereby certify that the above named apprentice has completed all skill requirements for the Vokal Systems Apprenticeship program.

Your Department:_________________________________

Department Head Name:____________________________

Department Head Signature:_______________________

Completion Date:_________________________________