Newborn

Time: 1 week

  1. [ ] Installation of GNU/Linux.

    1. [ ] Example: Fedora. Get user group, mailing-list help.

  2. [ ] Internet connectivity setup.

  3. [ ] Connect to IRC (irc.freenode.net, say, #fedora, #fedora-india).

    1. [ ] Register your IRC nick name

  4. [ ] Create a blog (say, in wordpress.com, blogspot.com). Update daily status in your blog.

Infant

Time: 1 week

  1. [ ] Communication/Project Guidelines.

    1. [ ] Read mailing list guidelines

    2. [ ] Read Communication Guidelines

    3. [ ] Read i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do

    4. [ ] Read GNU Coding Guidelines

  2. [ ] Emacs tutorial.

    1. [ ] C-h tutorial within emacs.

    2. [ ] Try the commands from Emacs-a-day-keeps-the-vi-zing-away

Toddler

Time: 1 week

  1. [ ] Shell commands.

    1. [ ] Basic commands

    2. [ ] Ownership and permissions

    3. [ ] Grep

Time: 1 week

  1. [ ] Advanced Bash Scripting Guide

Kid

Time: 6 weeks

  1. [ ] Python scripting.

    1. [ ] Dive into Python

      1. [ ] Chapter 1: Installing Python

    2. [ ] How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

      1. [ ] Chapter 1: The way of the program

      2. [ ] Chapter 2: Variables, expessions and statements

      3. [ ] Chapter 3: Functions

      4. [ ] Chapter 4: Conditionals and recursion

      5. [ ] Chapter 5: Fruitful functions

      6. [ ] Chapter 6: Iteration

      7. [ ] Chapter 7: Strings

      8. [ ] Chapter 8: Lists

      9. [ ] Chapter 9: Tuples

      10. [ ] Chapter 10: Dictionaries

      11. [ ] Chapter 11: Files and exceptions

      12. [ ] Chapter 12: Classes and objects

      13. [ ] Chapter 13: Classes and functions

      14. [ ] Chapter 14: Classes and methods

      15. [ ] Chapter 15: Sets of objects

      16. [ ] Chapter 16: Inheritance

      17. [ ] Chapter 17: Linked lists

      18. [ ] Chapter 18: Stacks

      19. [ ] Chapter 19: Queues

      20. [ ] Chapter 20: Trees

    3. [ ] Dive into Python

      1. [ ] Chapter 7: Regular Expressions

      2. [ ] Chapter 8: HTML Processing

      3. [ ] Chapter 9: XML Processing

      4. [ ] Chapter 10: Scripts and Streams

      5. [ ] Chapter 11: HTTP Web Services

      6. [ ] Chapter 13: Unit Testing

      7. [ ] Chapter 14: Test-First Programming

      8. [ ] Chapter 15: Refactoring

      9. [ ] Chapter 16: Functional Programming

      10. [ ] Chapter 17: Dynamic functions

      11. [ ] Chapter 18: Performance Tuning

Time: 1 week

  1. [ ] Version control systems.

    1. [ ] di-git-ally managing love letters (Running commentary)

    2. [ ] git tutorial by Bart Trojanowski

      1. [ ] intro-to-git.pdf

      2. [ ] Part I movie (git1.ogv)

      3. [ ] Part II movie (git2.ogv)

Time: 1 week

  1. [ ] Learn to do documentation.

    1. [ ] asciidoc.

      1. [ ] Read asciidoc userguide

      2. [ ] Cheatsheet reference

Time: 6 weeks

  1. [ ] C programming.

    1. [ ] The C Book

      1. [ ] Chapter 1: An Introduction to C

      2. [ ] Chapter 2: Variables and Arithmetic

      3. [ ] Chapter 3: Control of Flow and Logical Expressions

      4. [ ] Chapter 4: Functions

      5. [ ] Chapter 5: Arrays and Pointers

      6. [ ] Chapter 6: Structured Data Types

      7. [ ] Chapter 7: The Preprocessor

      8. [ ] Chapter 8: Specialized Areas of C

      9. [ ] Chapter 9: Libraries

      10. [ ] Chapter 10: Complete Programs in C

Important
 This should be sufficient, to get you started in doing projects. If a project requires special requirements, then check the following (in alphabetical order). You don't need to do everything that is mentioned. Just take the one(s) that are relevant.
Warning
 Use the right programming language to solve a problem. Don't treat programming languages as Gods! Treat each one as a tool. It is good to know many languages, and be a master of one.

Autotools

Time: 1 week

A guide to Autoconf, Automake and Libtool

LaTeX

Time: 1 week

LaTeX Tutorials - A Primer

Packaging Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

Time: 2 days

Packaging Red Hot, Paneer (butter) Masala or RPM

Perl

Time: 6 weeks

  1. [ ] Beginning Perl

    1. [ ] Introduction

    2. [ ] Chapter 1: First Steps In Perl

    3. [ ] Chapter 2: Working with Simple Values

    4. [ ] Chapter 3: Lists and Hashes

    5. [ ] Chapter 4: Loops and Decisions

    6. [ ] Chapter 5: Regular Expressions

    7. [ ] Chapter 6: Files and Data

    8. [ ] Chapter 7: References

    9. [ ] Chapter 8: Subroutines

    10. [ ] Chapter 9: Running and Debugging Perl

    11. [ ] Chapter 10: Modules

    12. [ ] Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Perl

    13. [ ] Chapter 12: Introduction to CGI

    14. [ ] Chapter 13: Perl and Databases

    15. [ ] Chapter 14: The World of Perl

    16. [ ] Appendix A: Regular Expressions

    17. [ ] Appendix B: Special Variables

    18. [ ] Appendix C: Function Reference

    19. [ ] Appendix D: The Perl Standard Modules

    20. [ ] Appendix E: Command Line Reference

    21. [ ] Appendix H: Solutions to Exercises

    22. [ ] Refer Code Examples (tar.gz Format)

PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook

Use as quick reference for different programming languages:

Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook

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