Goal: Establish the "AI-Native Backend" foundation.

• Primary: Launch AWS MLA-C01 prep & Write first LangChain script.
• Secondary: Catch up on Go (Structs/Interfaces).
• Maintenance: Frontend UI & DSA Sliding Window.

📚 Resource Locker

☁️ AWS (MLA-C01)

• Primary Course: Udemy: AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate - Stephane Maarek (Search for MLA-C01, not the Specialty MLS-C01).
• Free Alternative: AWS Skill Builder - Exam Prep Standard Course: AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate
• Documentation: AWS S3 Storage Classes | EC2 Instance Types for ML

🤖 GenAI (LangChain)

• Library: langchain (Python)
• Tutorial: LangChain Crash Course (FreeCodeCamp/James Briggs)
• Docs: LangChain Quickstart

🐹 Go (Backend)

• Course: Boot.dev - Learn Go
• Key Chapters: Ch 4 (Structs), Ch 5 (Interfaces).

🎨 Frontend

• Platform: GreatFrontend
• Challenges: Star Rating, Todo List

1. AWS Certified ML Engineer Associate (MLA-C01)

• Resource: Stephane Maarek / AWS SkillBuilder
• IAM (Identity & Access Management): Users, Groups, Roles, Policies. (Crucial: Understand "AssumeRole").
• S3 (Simple Storage Service): Buckets, Objects, Storage Classes (Standard vs Intelligent Tiering), Encryption., Life Cycle
• EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): Instance Types (Focus on P, G, Inf, Trn families for ML).

2. GenAI & LangChain (Python)

• Resource: DeepLearning.AI / LangChain Docs
• Setup: Install langchain, langchain-openai (or google-genai), python-dotenv. ✅ 2026-02-08
• LLM Basics: Write a script to call a model and get a text response. ✅ 2026-02-08
• Prompt Templates: Learn how to create reusable prompts with variables. ✅ 2026-02-10
• Output Parsers: Force the LLM to return JSON. ✅ 2026-02-16

3. Go Language (Boot.dev)

• Goal: Catch up on Week 2/3 lag.
• Functions
• Structs: Defining custom types, Embedded structs. ✅ 2026-02-16
• Interfaces: The most important concept in Go. ✅ 2026-02-16
• Project: "Task Tracker" CLI (using Structs).

4. DSA (NeetCode - Python Track)

• Topic: Sliding Window
• Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock. ✅ 2026-02-10
• Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters. ✅ 2026-02-10
• Longest Repeating Character Replacement. ✅ 2026-02-11
• Permutation in String. ✅ 2026-02-11
• Minimum Window Substring (Hard). ✅ 2026-02-12
• Sliding Window Maximum (Hard) ✅ 2026-02-12

5. Frontend (GreatFrontend)

• Goal: Move from "JS Logic" to "Building UI Components".
• Star Rating: Build a reusable star component. Handle hover (temporary fill) vs click (permanent fill). ✅ 2026-02-08
• Todo List: Standard DOM manipulation. Add item, delete item, toggle "done" class. ✅ 2026-02-12
• Holy Grail Layout: Review CSS Grid grid-template-areas for this classic layout. ✅ 2026-02-16

🗓️ Daily Schedule

🔴 Sunday, Feb 8 (The "Launch" Day - 8 Hours)

Focus: Environment Setup & First "Hello World" in AI.

🟣 Monday, Feb 9 (2.5 Hours)

Focus: EC2 Compute & DSA Logic

• 0:00 - 0:45 | 🧠 DSA (Python)

  • Task: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock (Easy) & Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters (Medium).
  • Focus: Use a set for the substring window.

• 0:45 - 1:45 | ☁️ AWS (MLA-C01)

  • Topic: EC2 for ML.
  • Key Concept: Difference between G-instances (Inference/Graphics) and P-instances (Training/Heavy Compute).

• 1:45 - 2:30 | 🎨 Frontend

  • Task: Todo List (Part 1).
  • Code: Build the HTML structure and the handleSubmit function to add items to an array.

🟣 Tuesday, Feb 10 (2.5 Hours)

Focus: Prompt Engineering & Go Methods

• 0:00 - 0:45 | 🧠 DSA (Python)

  • Task: Longest Repeating Character Replacement (Medium).
  • Technique: res = max(res, r - l + 1) strategy.

• 0:45 - 1:45 | 🤖 GenAI

  • Topic: Prompt Templates.
  • Code: Use PromptTemplate.from_template("Tell me a {adjective} joke about {topic}").

• 1:45 - 2:30 | 🐹 Go

  • Task: Methods.
  • Code: Add a method func (u User) UpdateEmail(newEmail string) to your struct.

🟣 Wednesday, Feb 11 (2.5 Hours)

Focus: S3 Lifecycle & Frontend Interaction

• 0:00 - 0:45 | 🧠 DSA (Python)

  • Task: Permutation in String (Medium).
  • Technique: Fixed Sliding Window + HashMap comparison.

• 0:45 - 1:45 | ☁️ AWS (MLA-C01)

  • Topic: S3 Management.
  • Lab: Create a Lifecycle Rule to move objects to "S3 Standard-IA" after 30 days.

• 1:45 - 2:30 | 🎨 Frontend

  • Task: Todo List (Part 2).
  • Code: Implement "Delete" (filter array) and "Toggle Complete" (map array).

🟣 Thursday, Feb 12 (2.5 Hours)

Focus: Chains & Go Interfaces

• 0:00 - 0:45 | 🧠 DSA (Python)

  • Task: Minimum Window Substring (Hard) - Day 1
  • Goal: Just understand the logic/algorithm. Don't code yet.

• 0:45 - 1:45 | 🤖 GenAI

  • Topic: Simple Chains.
  • Code: Pipe a Prompt into an LLM using chain = prompt | llm.

• 1:45 - 2:30 | 🐹 Go

  • Task: Interfaces (Ch 5 Start).
  • Concept: "If it walks like a duck..." (Duck Typing in Go).

🟣 Friday, Feb 13 (2.5 Hours)

Focus: Hard DSA & Cloud Lab

• 0:00 - 0:45 | 🧠 DSA (Python)

  • Task: Minimum Window Substring (Hard) - Day 2.
  • Goal: Write the code. Handle edge cases.

• 0:45 - 1:45 | ☁️ AWS (Lab)

  • Lab: Launch an EC2 t2.micro instance.
  • Action: SSH into it. Install Python (sudo yum install python3). Verify version.

• 1:45 - 2:30 | 🎨 Frontend

  • Task: Holy Grail Layout.
  • Code: Use CSS Grid to place Header, Footer, Nav, Aside, and Main.

🔴 Saturday, Feb 14 (The Build - 8 Hours)

Focus: Go Project & AI Integration