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Learn how to swim in Linux with C 🏊

42Prague - Piscine (November 2022)

❓ What means piscine:

„Piscine“ it’s the French word for „Swimming Pool“. The idea is that everyone learns how to swim by immediately jumping into the water.In 42 believes it’s the same when you start programming.

🏊 About piscine:

The Piscine is a 4-weeks immersive training on campus taht brings together about 150 other candidates to spend 4 weeks, seven days a week, day and night (including weekends) . Dive deep into coding with C and Unix by working through challenging projects and solving daily assignments alongside your peers.

🧮 Projects:

• Shell00: Introduction to Shell

• C00: Introduction to C

• C01: Pointers and If Statements

• C02: Introduction To Strings and Arrays

• C03: String Functions, Manipulation and Concatanation

• C04: Analysing String Qualities and Manipulating Ints

• C05: Mathematical Concepts in C

• C06: Understanding Argc and Argv

• C07: Memory Allocation

• Rush00: Group project

🦾 Developed skills:

hard skills:

# C Language
	The primary language learned at the 42's Piscine is C: dealing with variables,
	pointers, memory allocation, macros, as well as creating functions and programs,
	including the use and creation of libraries and Makefiles.

# Shell
	The first two days of the bootcamp are dedicated to learning basic to intermediate
	shell commands to seamlessly navigate through the terminal.

# Git
	All projects are submitted via a remote git repository, which demands students to
	be at ease with such a system.

soft skills:

# Self-learning and proactiveness
	At 42, self-learning is at the core of its peer to peer learning methodology. There
	are no teachers whatsoever; the learning process is based on googling, enquiring
	your classmates, and empirical knowledge, each student learning at their own pace.

# Teamwork
	On weekends, a 48h team project called "Rush" is proposed: a 3-member group randomly
	chosen by the school's system must collaboratively develop a fully running application.
	The major challenge here is to equalize the different knowledge levels while finding a
	common work methodology that allows all team members to contribute to the project.

# Time management and resiliency
	The school is open 24/7. Thus, the so-called "pisciners" are free to work whenever
	they want, which demands excellent time management skills and resiliency for not
	"drowning" amid the massive load of work demanded by the non-stop 26-day program.