Tinkering Workshop syllabus

Day1

• Introduction

  • Importance of Technology in the 21st century

    • Code.og video
    • Picoctf.com video

  • Why everyone must learn to code

  • New jobs in

21st century

• Linux:
  • Intro to GNU/Linux - history, development, advantages
  • Demo installation using Virtual Box
  • Working with GUI to manage files - File Manager
  • Creating and editing files using Gedit, libre office
  • Command line.
    • What

is command line and its uses? - Different commands and use cases of the terminal.
- ls, mv, cat, tail, head, rm,

mkdir, cd, diff, grep, man

    - Installing and uninstalling programs using apt 

• Python

  • Introduction to programming

  • Introduction to scripting language and Python

  • Setting up Python

  • Getting started -

    • Hello World
    • Printing odd numbers from 1 to 100
    • Convert a given temperature from degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius
    • Finding greatest numbers from a list in a file

  • More programs

    • Count the Number of Vowels
    • Make a simple calculator
    • Sent mail using Python and Google API?

  • Students write program

    • Program to Check Leap Year
    • Program to Display the Multiplication Table
    • Check Whether a String is Palindrome or Not

  • Make students install git and sign up for an account

Day2

• Git

  • What is VCS?

  • Use of VCS.

  • Introduction to Git and GitHub.

  • How does Git work?

  • Setting up of Github account and Git in the local system.

  • Quick example with Git. (https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1)

  • Different commands in Git.

    • init, add, commit, diff, status, log, remote, push, pull

  • Make students

to push all the python code written into their git account

• Open-Source

  • What is open source?
  • About various open source organisations.
  • Why open source?
  • Make them fork a demo, fix bugs and make a pull request.

• Debugging and fixing code in Python and committing it via Git.

• Google Code-in

  • What is Google Code-in?
  • How to participate in Code-In?

Day 3:

• Cyber Security
  • Dangers of using the Internet
  • How to use the internet safely and effectively
  • Recent attacks/News/Data Leaks
  • Privacy
  • Bug Bounty
  • Intro to DB/SQL
  • Web Security
    • Intro to Web Security
    • Information Gathering
    • SQL Injection
    • Examples/Tasks

Day 4:

• Cryptography

  • What is crypto?
  • Intro to basic cyphers
  • Examples/Tasks

• Cyber Forensics

  • Intro to forensics
  • Image forensics
  • Steganography
  • Examples/Tasks