Prep

The CYF+ Immersive Engineering Programme is an intensive three month course. There’s a lot to get through and you’ll need to hit the ground running. To prepare for this exciting opportunity, you will:

Computers

Read some of How Computers Really Work by Matthew Justice.

You must read chapters 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Any other chapters may be interesting (feel free to read them! We particularly recommend 8), but aren’t necessary.

Note that this book isn’t free - someone at CYF may be able to lend you a copy if you need.

Linux

Play the Bandit - you must be able to complete up to level 20 (repeatedly)
Take this Unix 101 course (and then try 102)
Print out this Linux-Cheat-Sheet

Go

Learn the basics of the Go programming language: Get Started - The Go Programming Language
Read this, you might find it useful for working through your first projects: How to use the fmt package in Golang
And optionally Learn Go with tests
Read the Pointers chapter of An Introduction to Programming in Go, and do the problems listed in the chapter.
Read about stack and heap memory - note that the examples here are C++ not Go, but you should be able to follow them. One important difference between these languages is that in Go, you don’t need to worry about whether a value lives on the heap or the stack (in fact, Go is allowed to choose where your variable lives, and even move it around) - this means that it’s ok to return a pointer to a stack variable in Go. You also don’t need to call delete yourself in Go - Go is a garbage collected language so it will delete variables when they’re no longer needed.

CYF+

CYF+02 Prep Workbook

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Prep

Computers

Linux

Go

Tooling

Projects

Reading