Learning Path — Software Engineering Foundations

Guidance only. A broad grounding in building software: the craft, the tools, the systems it runs on, and the rules for releasing it.

This is a guide, not a requirement. A Learning Path only recommends an order for working through otherwise-independent modules toward competence in this area. Take them all, or pick just the ones you need — your progress is tracked per module either way.

Becoming a well-rounded developer means more than writing code: it’s the tools, the systems your code runs on, and the rules for shipping it. These modules give you that grounding. This is a suggested order — every module also stands alone.

Recommended order

  1. 1. Intro to Software Dev The craft of building software. 43 lessons 7 units
  2. 2. Programming in Go A real language, end to end — Go, from first program to concurrency. 30 lessons 6 units
  3. 3. Testing & Software Quality Keep it correct — unit tests, regression discipline, CI, and debugging. 34 lessons 6 units
  4. 4. Git & GitHub Version control and collaboration. 30 lessons 6 units
  5. 5. Linux & the Command Line The command line every developer lives in. 29 lessons 6 units
  6. 6. Networking & the Internet How software talks across machines. 29 lessons 6 units
  7. 7. Databases & Data Where your application's data lives — SQL, NoSQL, and vector stores. 32 lessons 6 units
  8. 8. Web Development The web layer most software meets its users through. 32 lessons 6 units
  9. 9. APIs & Protocols How your software talks to other software — REST, real-time events, and gRPC. 32 lessons 6 units
  10. 10. Containers & Deployment Containers, CI/CD, and getting your software running in production. 30 lessons 6 units
  11. 11. Software Licensing The legal side of shipping and reusing code. 41 lessons 7 units