Module 1: PYTHON – Beginner to Maestro ( Learn the tool, Build a Fort ):

Syntax and Integrated Development Environment
Operators and Operands
Control structures, Loops and Loop Controls
Functions and Modules
In-built Data Structures
Functional programming
Decorator and Generator
Regular Expressions
Object Oriented Programming(OOP) concept from a Developer, made VERY EASY
File and Exceptional Handling
Logic building sessions and Doubt sessions
Important interview topics covered and more questions to practice than you can handle
Advanced :: Multithreading/Logging/Garbage collection

“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.”

Module 2: Libraries for CLI automation ( Automating what you already know ):

Scripting practice using the open libraries available
Paramiko
Netmiko
Napalm
Telnetlib
Creating your own Module !!!

Module 3: Data serialization and libs ( Your bestfriends for automation, after your Brain ):

json
yaml
xml
Related libraries and how to use them

‘In the Coding World, Googling is an ART !!!’

Module 4: REST-API and Tools ( You are a DEVELOPER now ):

HTTP and its terminologies
HTTP CRUD and ERROR codes (google CRUD now !!)
API
REST
Curl
Postman
Requests library
All the above topics are CISCO preferred
We can build a joke generating machine and play a card game !!!

“A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street”

Module 5: ANSIBLE ( Trendy Topic, Easy Tool ):

Basics of Linux environment
Ansible components
Hosts/inventory and .cfg
Ad-hoc and modules
Jinja templating
Automate everything you can think of, using PLAYBOOKS !!

“Software Developer” – An organism that turns caffeine into software

Module 6: DEVNET World ( Whole new way of talking withRouters and Switches ):

A whole course in itself, summarized to ease your way into it
Fork an official CISCO code repository(GIT Basics included)
NETCONF
RESTCONF
YANG
Using the tools above to “CRUD” configurations on the devices
Software Development and Design
All the things CISCO wants you to learn

“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” – Linus Torvalds

Module 7: Cisco Devices Programmability Options ( Every Box is special ):

IOS XE

o CRUD in boxes using NETCONF/RESTCONF(did you google CRUD yet?)

NX-OS

o NX-API
o Overview of programmable features
o Developer Sandbox
o NX-OS Object
o Data Management Engine(DME)
o Management Information Tree(MIT)
o Visore

ACI

o ‘HEROES’ Tenant
o ACI GUI
o EPG
o Object Model
o Cobra, Arya and Toolkit
o CRUD a Tenant

UCS

o Unified API
o UCS Manager python SDK
o CRUD UCS Manager objects
o UCS Director
o IMC Redfish
o IMC Powertool