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months
Roadmap Foundations All 3 Trimesters
The primary focus for the 9 months of Foundations is to
achieve mastery of fundamental engineering concepts and
become skilled in coding. Technical Writing Holberton Culture

Professional Development will be a key supplement to this

Recursion Whiteboarding
primary goal.

At the conclusion of Foundations, students will have acquired Collaboration Mock Interviews
a strong foundation of technical knowledge from which they
can either build upon with a Specialization or begin preparing The Framework Time Management
for interviews and jobs as part of Holberton’s interview prep,
Career Sprint.

First Trimester Third Trimester

1 st Trimester 3 rd Trimester
2 nd Trimester
Intro to: HBnB (Web Development) : SysEng/DevOps:
- Emacs - SSH
- HTML
- Vim - SSL/TLS
- CSS
- Git/Github - HTTP/S
- JSON
- Vagrant 1 st Trimester - Webstack Debugging
- Unit Testing
C: - Servers
2 nd Trimester 3 rd Trimester - Web Servers (Nginx)
- Basics SysEng: C: - Application Servers
- Functions - Algorithms (Gunicorn)
- Open Systems Interconnection
- Pointers - Searching
Model
- Data Structures (Puppet)
1 st Trimester - Arrays - TCP/IP
- Load Balancers
Printf - Singly Linked Lists - Postmortems
2 nd Trimester
- Bit Manipulation - Networking
- Variadic Functions
Databases: 3 rd Trimester
HBnB (Web Development) : - Monitoring
- Memory Management - SQL
- File I/O - MySQL - Javascript
1 st Trimester
Shell - Syscalls - JQuery
- Processes - Deployment
- APIs
2nd
Trimester
- Flask
Linux: 3 rd Trimester
1 st Trimester - Signals and Processes Hack Days
Compilation - Scripting

2 nd Trimester
C:
1 st Trimester 2ndrdtrimester
3 Trimester
Heap/Stack - Data Structures Code Debugging
Python:
- Stacks/Queues
- Doubly Linked Lists - ORMs (SQLAlchemy)
- Hash Tables - Templating (Jinja2)
2 nd Trimester
- Binary Trees
1 st Trimester
Python: - Algorithms
Linux - Sorting
- Basics - Big O Notation
- Basics - Object-Oriented Programming
3 rd Trimester
- Dynamic Libraries Code Debugging
- Permissions - Interpreted Languages
- Redirections - Test Driven Development
- Static Libraries - Error Handling
- Command Line - File I/O
- Web Scraping

3 rd Trimester
Regexes

Second Trimester