Technical Guides

These guides provide practical, hands-on instruction for technologies used throughout the course. Each guide focuses on essential concepts with working examples you can copy and modify.

HTTP & Web Services

HTTP Fundamentals — What HTTP is, how it works, testing with curl
HTTP Requests with urllib — Making HTTP requests and handling responses in Python
Serving Static Content with nginx — Web servers, static vs dynamic content, serving files

Data Processing & APIs

Working with JSON Data — Parsing and building JSON data structures
Working with XML Data — Working with XML data using ElementTree
ArXiv API Quick Reference — Query syntax, rate limits, and usage patterns

Cloud Services & Infrastructure

AWS Account Setup — Creating the account, plan choice, root MFA, budget alert
AWS CLI Setup — Installation, IAM user and access key, configuration, command structure
AWS boto3 Essentials — Authentication, common services, error handling
Docker Basics — Building, running, and managing containers