Plan for July 1st long weekend.

 AH, finally a good long weekend coming up to focus on some learning.

Plan for the three days:

The first and most important is that I want to get back to working with Kubernetes and AWS so will be working on finishing up the EKS workshop (www.eksworkshop.com). I will summarize each of the sections and post a review here.

The next thing that I really want to get done over this weekend is to watch 3 of the CS50 lectures, the Algorithms, the Memory, & the Data Structures ones. Again, I will post a summary of each of the lectures here.


July 1st:

Algorithms lecture

All of the EKS Beginner modules

July 2nd:

Memory lecture

All of the EKS Intermediate modules

July 3rd:

Data structures lecture

All of the EKS Advanced modules

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