First Day of June Core Competency: DEADLINES

The only way to achieve my "First Day of June" goal of achieving core competency is by setting deadlines to finish tutorials, etc. I will try to update progress on this each week. 

The art schedule is a little bit hardcore. As a result, I am allowing the "scripting for animation, CSANM 354 rehash" sections to be moved into the summer/fall of 2022 if needed. I hope that after completing these tutorials, my arsenal will be greatly improved for these two bigger projects. My CS 455 video game, Carnivile, will be redone at some point, but I don't know when. 

Due to the intensity of my art, coding, and math schedule, I am going a little bit easier on myself for writing. I will try to get ahead on all fronts if possible. 

I haven't figured out how to start incorporating regular Leetcode practice. But I won't worry about that until Cracking the Coding Interview is finished. 

I'm still working on deadlines for math, physics, and coding, and will update this post once they're done. I will need to fly through the introductory math, possibly as I get ready for bed each night, and I must fly through my schoolwork too in order to make time for everything and still get good grades. 

I will evaluate this weekly, re-post it, and push back dates if I have to -- but hopefully not. 

I've failed on schedules like this before. But I'll be danged if I don't pull out all the stops this time, and finally finish core competency after all these years. 

WRITING
  • Finish Carnivile draft 1 (due May 26th)
  • Plan next novel, figure out how to restart fanfic, figure out how to restart poetry, writing plans for the summer (due June 1st) 
ART
  • Pixar in a Box (due November 4th)
  • Drawabox (due December 4th)
  • Maya review (due November 12th)
  • Houdini (due Nov 27th)
  • Substance (due December 5th)
  • Nuke (due Dec 11th)
  • After Effects (due Dec 13th)
  • CtrlPaint (due Dec 31st)
  • Digital Painting in Photoshop (due Jan 8th)
  • Paleoart (due Jan 9th)
  • Proko: Figure Drawing (due Jan 30th)
  • Animator’s survival kit (due Feb 26th)
  • Force: dynamic life drawing (due March 19th)
  • hippie.nu (due March 26th) 
  • mastering manga (Due April 2nd)
  • blender guru intro (due April 9th)
  • unity (due April 16th)
  • unreal (due April 23rd)
  • illuminated pixels (due May 23rd) 
  • scripting for animation (due May 23rd)
  • CSANM 354 rehash (due May 23rd)
  • graphic design, UI/UX review (due May 24th)
  • basic 2D animation (due May 25th)
  • basic photography (due May 26th)
  • break, set summer goals for art (due June 1st) 
MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS

Note: these deadlines may be too aggressive. If so, I can compress my review of the later math classes. However, this is ideally to be avoided, as I'd rather rush through the basics which I already have a pretty decent grasp on. 
  • Khan Academy: Arithmetic (due October 29th)
  • Khan Academy: Basic Geometry and Measurement (due November 1st)
  • Khan Academy: Pre-algebra (due November 5th)
  • Khan Academy: Algebra basics (due November 10th)
  • Khan Academy: Algebra 1 (due November 15th)
  • Khan Academy: Geometry (due November 20th)
  • Proofs Part 1 (due November 27th)
  • Khan Academy: Algebra 2 (due December 1st)
  • Khan Academy: Trigonometry (due December 4th)
  • Khan Academy: Statistics and probability (due December 8th)
  • Khan Academy: Pre-calculus (due December 15th)
  • Khan Academy: Calculus I (due December 22nd)
  • Proofs Part 2 and Discrete Mathematics (due January 1st)
  • Khan Academy: Calculus II (due February 1st)
  • Khan Academy: Linear Algebra (due March 1st)
  • Khan Academy: Multivariable Calculus (due April 1st)
  • Khan Academy: Differential Equations (due April 30th)
  • Khan Academy: Physics library (which includes astronomy) (due May 20th)
  • Khan Academy: Electrical Engineering (due May 23rd)

THEME PARK DESIGN
  • Theme Park Design certification (due November 6th) 
  • CAD certification (due February 28th)
  • Imagineering in a Box (due May 24th) 
MISC
  • Dino 101 certification for winter break (Due January 1st)
CODING AND IT
  • Finish "Cracking the Coding Interview" (due December 31st, read a little each day)
  • Obtain PLC I certification (due November 14th, non-negotiable deadline)
  • Finish reading "Show Networks and Control Systems" (due December 31st, read each night)
  • Excel programming review (due November 1st) 
  • Rewrite Dad's business website (due November 28th) 
  • Google IT Support Fundamentals certification (due December 11th)
  • Guru99 Software Testing course (due December 17th)
  • Data center / network operations review (due December 19th)
  • CompTIA: all video series (due December 23rd) 
  • TryHackMe, Hack the Box, RingZer0, or some other sort of regular CTF practice (Begin working on every Friday night after finishing IT Support Fundamentals and CompTIA) (due May 23rd)
  • Review all necessary CS courses, including a code polish (or rewrite for 236, 324, and maybe 224, plus code the server for 240 since it wasn't an assignment when I took the course but I think it would be helpful):
    • CS 142 (due December 24th. This is basically done; I'd just like to add the code to a private GitHub repo, so it's on the cloud somewhere.) 
    • CS 224 (due March 1st)
      • Read "Code" by Charles Petzold 
    • CS 235 (due December 26th. Will involve a quick algorithm review and code cleanup)
    • CS 236 (due January 31st, but this is NOT counting my discrete math review -- this is just a projects polish)
    • CS 240 (due January 2nd -- might be a good winter break project to clean everything up)
    • CS 252 (due January 2nd)
    • CS 260 (due December 23rd)
      • Do a quick WordPress tutorial for a day 
    • CS 312 (due February 5th) 
    • CS 324 (due April 1st)
      • Bandit Wargames  -- this may happen as part of my cybersecurity studies, which, alongside computer graphics, will ultimately take precedence after core competency is achieved. 
    • CS 340 (due January 15th -- don't polish anything since it was a group project, just review design patterns and look everything over) 
    • CS 355 (due February 12th)
    • CS 450 (due April 30th -- recode the stitching lab specifically) 
    • CS 455 (due December 31st -- seriously, this will be really easy since 655 basically had me recode 455, and I'm booting the Carnivile recode until post-competency, so it's just a quick review of the basic labs -- though if I want to redo the exams it may be harder)
    • CS 470 (due April 1st. Work on this when you're tired of 224)
  • MIT: the missing semester 
  • Deep learning basics (due November 12th)
  • Work through Scratchapixel (due May 23rd)
  • Art of Electronics (due May 23rd, but can be pushed to the summer)
  • Ruby on Rails book (due April 30th, but can be pushed to later)
  • An April and May of CompTIA (due May 23rd)
    • CompTIA certification: ITF+
    • CompTIA certification: A+ 
    • CompTIA certification: Network+
    • CompTIA certification: Security+
  • Google IT Automation certification (due April 15th)
  • Clean Code book (due May 23rd)
  • Read Real-Time Rendering book (soft deadline May 23rd, but can be pushed back to the summer -- however, since it will deal with MS final project, it would be better sooner than later)
  • Anything other core concepts I missed on TeachYourselfCS (due May 23rd)
  • Set summer goals: Consider prep for Robust Control via MIT OCW (due June 1st)

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