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-- ALBERT TO DO --

Take away skills students can walk away with by end of summer?

Get two more laptops from FreeGeek (cheap ones). 

Set hosts file on student computers so they cannot access youtube, facebook, etc (host file configuration: https://ae.nirv.network/etc/hosts.txt)

Child safe DNS configuration (Also blocks websites). 

DEFCON hacking conference (child friendly) perhaps next year?

Also Midwest Vintage Computer Festival (Chicago) is awesome and child friendly. Crazy peeps out there. 




-- STUDENTS CIRRICULUM --

Read all of 2600 magazine. 

Field Trip FreeGeek computer store / recycling.

Computer Hardware - Pull apart laptop to check out the inside. 

	Go over basics of CPU, memory, hard disk, input/output, etc. 

What is an Operating System? 

Get access to ChatGPT.

Linux Operating System

	Navigate the system with cd, ls, mv, cp, rm, *, vim, cat.

	Networking

		Ping devices on the Internet. 
	
		dig 

		Ping each others computers. 

		tcpdump

		netcat

	Create users. 

	Learn processes (ps, top, kill).

	Create cron jobs. 

	Learn permissions (chmod, chown).

	Run a simple web server.

	Learn how DNS works.

Field Trip to MicroCenter for a copy of next quarter edition of 2600 magazine. 


Make a simple website with HTML and CSS.

Python for programming

	Hello World 

	Fortune Cookie Program

	Hacker Name Generator 

	Password Generator 

	Number Guessing Game

	Text Adventure Game 

sdf.org 
	
	Create user account.

	Setup email. 

	Log into com chat. 

Host a Minecraft server and connect to it from another computer.

Start custom building things for Minecraft server using Python.

Write into 2600 (Write about what you learned).

Install new operating system to a laptop.

Security 

	Learn strong passwords. 
	
	Use a password manager.

	Capture traffic between two computers. 

	Learn how HTTPS differs from HTTP.

	Learn what encryption does.



Further Learning: 

https://telehack.com/

https://web.mit.edu/mprat/Public/web/Terminus/Web/main.html

https://overthewire.org/wargames/



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