Jumpstart

Essentials to know as AICIPers

General system and software knowledge

Even as an engineer student, it is necessary to sharpen your computer science skills in both breadth and depth, which may include:

• Learn to write readable and maintainable code.
• Learn to admin (setup service, trouble shoot) on a Linux box.
• Learn to set up and manage a container (docker) or VM (vmware or virtualbox) environment.
• Learn common data structure & algorithms
• Learn and master at least one code editor: be it vim, vs code, or sublime.
• Learn Latex typesetting
• Learn to give a presentation.

Git (for source control management)

There are many tutorials and teaching videos, prepare yourself to have a working knowledge of git and its core concepts such as commit, branch, merge, team workflow (pull request), resolving conflict0 etc.

• Git & GitHub Crash Course For Beginners (30 min)
• Git branching and merging (30 min)
• Git advanced tutorial (60 min)

Python and its ecosystem (for general programming and data analysis)

You need to have hands-on experience on how to install and manage Python environment using conda or pip; you need to know how to package and distribute a pure Python module; and you need to know how to integrate C/C++ into Python.

• Python tutorial (6.0 hr) - you can skip Django project if you want, which is not really required.

• Jupyter Notebook, 30 min

• Numpy tutorial (2.5 hr)

• Matplotlib tutorial (60 min)

• Panda tutorial (60 min)

Image Processing

You should at least know about [OpenCV] (http://www.opencv.org) and dlib, or both.