Modern Computing & Systems Curriculum
Explore full-stack distributed systems, AI platforms, cloud orchestrations, and zero-knowledge cryptography with chapter quizzes and real-time progress validation.
Core computing, interface orchestration, agentic loops, and prompting paradigms.
Artificial Intelligence & Foundations
From state spaces and statistical learning through neural networks, transformers, and alignment.
Prompt Engineering & Deterministic Agents
Chain-of-thought, ReAct loops, structured tool calling, DSPy prompts, and semantic guardrails.
Forward Deployed & Full-Stack AI
Modern AI UI workflows, streaming SSE endpoints, edge runtimes, and enterprise client integrations.
Distributed storage engines, container runtimes, automated CI/CD, and vector RAG pipelines.
Cloud Computing & DevOps Platforms
Virtualization, Linux systems, hyperscaler clouds, containers, Kubernetes, and SRE observability.
Data Engineering, Lakehouses & Analytics
Relational modeling, lakehouse table formats (Iceberg/Delta), Apache Spark, and real-time Kafka streams.
DevOps & Cloud Orchestration
Docker multi-stage builds, Kubernetes pod lifecycles, Terraform state locks, and GitOps delivery.
MLOps & Model Lifecycle Engineering
Feature stores, MLflow pipeline tracking, GPU inference scaling, and automated drift monitoring.
LLM Fundamentals & Vector RAG Systems
RoPE embeddings, ChromaDB chunking, hybrid search (BM25 + Dense), and cross-encoder rerankers.
Consensus algorithms, EVM bytecode, invariant fuzzing, and general-purpose zkVMs.
Blockchain & Decentralized Protocols
Ledgers, consensus, Layer 1–3 scaling, Solidity/Rust smart contracts, DeFi, and account abstraction.
System Design & Distributed Systems
CAP/PACELC theorems, Raft consensus, consistent hash rings, LSM-trees, and rate limiters at scale.
Smart Contract Auditing & Security
Re-entrancy vectors, flash loan oracle exploits, Slither AST static analysis, and invariant fuzzing.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs & Succinct SP1
Finite fields, polynomial commitments, arithmetic circuits, SNARKs/STARKs, and Succinct SP1 zkVM.