goals.json

{
  "pln": {
    "1.1": {
      "description": "Know what the PL Network is, how Protocol Labs evolved from company to network, as well as the projects, tooling, and DApps being built on the PLN",
      "subgoals": []
    },
    "1.2": {
      "description": "Understand what the resources and tools are within the PL Network to support teams, individuals, companies, and general growth of our mission",
      "subgoals": []
    },
    "1.3": {
      "description": "Understand the methods and philosophies about how work and communication is carried out in the Protocol Labs Network & within PLN open source communities",
      "subgoals": []
    }
  },
  "ipfs": {
    "1.0": {
      "description": "Understand what IPFS is and why IPFS was started",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.01",
          "description": "Understand what is a peer to peer (p2p) network"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.02",
          "description": "Know the difference between centralised, decentralised, and distributed networks"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.03",
          "description": "Describe limitations and challenges with centralized services versus p2p systems"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.04",
          "description": "Understand how IPFS is trying to design systems that are future-proof"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.05",
          "description": "Describe, high level, some of the solutions posed by IPFS"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.1": {
      "description": "Understand Content Addressing, CIDs, and what advantages they present over location-based addressing",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.11",
          "description": "Be able to describe what mutable data is, and why content in IPFS is immutable"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.12",
          "description": "Understand difference between location addressing vs content addressing"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.13",
          "description": "Know the different types of CIDs, and what a CID is made up of"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.14",
          "description": "Understand why data on IPFS needs to be pinned to be made available to the network"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.15",
          "description": "Identify how a garbage collection process is done on an IPFS node and how to keep data discoverable on IPFS"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.2": {
      "description": "Be able to explain how content is shared on IPFS",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.21",
          "description": "Be able to describe what content identifiers and mutable data are"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.22",
          "description": "Understand the challenges posed in a decentralized content sharing system"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.23",
          "description": "Understand the basics of the public DHT"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.24",
          "description": "Be able to explain what a peer, node, and swarm are in the context of IPFS"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.3":{
      "description": "Learn about IPFS Gateways and how they help bridge information between web2 and web3",
      "subgoals":[
        {
          "id": "1.31",
          "description": "Know the methods to address content in IPFS through Gateways"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.32",
          "description": "Get familiar with the work being done to bring native IPFS support to browsers"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.33",
          "description": "Learn about current public Gateways and how any node in the network can provide this service"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.34",
          "description": "Be able to name projects that use or build upon IPFS, and what those projects do"
        }
      ],
      "levels":["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.4": {
      "description": "Be able to explain the basics of data transfer in IPFS",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.41",
          "description": "Learn what is IPFS's message-oriented protocol to exchange data"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.42",
          "description": "Know what are the different message types and their order of operations"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.43",
          "description": "Understand what is the session and the ledger in the context of Bitswap"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.44",
          "description": "Explain the different components of Bitswap at a high level"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.45",
          "description": "Discover what advantages Graphsync has over Bitswap"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["deep"]
    },
    "1.5":{
      "description": "Gain knowledge of the IPFS architecture and the different components and services",
      "subgoals":[
        {
          "id":"1.51",
          "description": "Understand the flow of files that go through IPFS"
        },
        {
          "id":"1.52",
          "description": "Gain an introductory understanding of Linked Data"
        },
        {
          "id":"1.53",
          "description": "Demystify the core components that purely make up IPFS"
        },
        {
          "id":"1.54",
          "description": "Lean into technical details of mutable data on IPFS"
        }
      ],
      "levels":["deep"]
    },
    "1.6": {
      "description": "Be able to explain the basics of UnixFS",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.61",
          "description": "Understand what is UnixFS and what problem it solves"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.62",
          "description": "Learn how files with more than a single block are labeled"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.63",
          "description": "Go over the protobuf format, and its main field"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["deep"]
    }
  },
  "ipld": {
    "1.0": {
      "description": "Understand how and why IPLD was created",
      "subgoals":[
        {
          "id": "1.01",
          "description": "Know what separates IPFS from IPLD"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.02",
          "description": "Describe use cases of IPLD"
        },
        {
          "id":"1.03",
          "description": "Have a basic background knowledge of what makes a CID"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.1": {
      "description": "Understand how IPLD addresses data in a Content-Addressed system",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.11",
          "description": "Identify the differences between CID versions and their properties"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.12",
          "description": "Understand the multiformats involved in generating a CID"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.13",
          "description": "Use the CID Inspector to break down and analyze CIDs"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.2": {
      "description": "Be able to describe graph data structures and Merkle DAG",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.21",
          "description": "Understand how a Merkle DAG is different from other type of graphs"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.22",
          "description": "Learn how files get broken down to DAGs"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.23",
          "description": "Learn what happens when a Merkle Dag is mutated"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.3": {
      "description": "Understand how IPLD operates in the context of IPFS",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.31",
          "description": "Understand the complete picture of adding a file to IPFS"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.32",
          "description": "Make sense of how UnixFS interoperates with DAG structures"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.33",
          "description": "Identify what kind of data types can you use with IPLD"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.34",
          "description": "Define the various encodings and data formats used in IPLD"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.4": {
      "description": "Go over the underlying data types and formats in IPLD",
      "subgoals":[
        {
          "id": "1.41",
          "description": "Understand the different types of data used with IPLD"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.42",
          "description": "Discover the default codec in IPFS and how it differs from other IPLD-native codecs"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.43",
          "description": "Describe how IPLD is interoperable with other addressed systems"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.44",
          "description": "Understand how Schemas provide encoding and storage convenience for application developers"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["deep"]
    },
    "1.5": {
      "description": "Gain a conceptual understanding on what algorithms we use with Merkle DAGs to build distributed data structures",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.51",
          "description": "Understand what makes distributed data structures so powerful"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.52",
          "description": "Learn the basics of the HAMT algorithm operations"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.53",
          "description": "How to traverse a Merkle DAG with IPLD pathing"
        }
      ],
      "levels":["deep"]
    },
    "1.6": {
      "description": "Learn about the CAR format and how it helps data distribution",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.61",
          "description": "Get an idea of how the CAR format is beneficial to IPLD and how it is used today"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.62",
          "description": "See the differences between the two CAR version formats"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["deep"]
    }
  },
  "libp2p": {
    "1.0": {
      "description": "Understand what libp2p is and the benefits it provides",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.01",
          "description": "Understand the difference between the p2p and client-server model"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.02",
          "description": "Describe the technical & political benefits and challenges of peer-to-peer architectures"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.03",
          "description": "Discover resources to understand the long term objectives and use cases for libp2p"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.1": {
      "description": "Understand the main building blocks of libp2p",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.11",
          "description": "Identify the main transport protocols supported with the libp2p stack"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.12",
          "description": "Learn about the several NAT traversal with libp2p"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.13",
          "description": "Understand what stream multiplexing is, and what benefits it provides"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.14",
          "description": "Be able to explain the benefits of Multiaddresses"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.2": {
      "description": "Understand how libp2p establishes connections",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.21",
          "description": "Define concepts of nodes, peers, and peer identities in an independent peer to peer network"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.22",
          "description": "Understand how peer identity is generated"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.23",
          "description": "Describe the steps involved in opening a connection including handshakes, security, and multiplexing"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.24",
          "description": "Identify how multiplexing is useful to use several application protocols over the same connection"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
    "1.3": {
      "description": "Understand the content routing mechanisms used in a Distributed Hash Table",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.31",
          "description": "Describe the distance metric used by the DHT"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.32",
          "description": "Understand how the routing table facilitates peer discovery"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.33",
          "description": "Be able to describe the basic operations of the DHT"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["deep"]
    },
    "1.4": {
      "description": "Understand what is Pub/Sub and its main implementations in libp2p",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.41",
          "description": "Understand what Floodsub is and how it transmit messages"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.42",
          "description": "Analyze the main differences between FloodSub and Gossipsub"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.43",
          "description": "Describe the benefits of Gossipsub over Floodsub"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["deep"]
    },
    "1.5": {
      "description": "Learn what NAT Traversal is, and what different methods are available",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.51",
          "description": "Describe how a Circuit Relay works"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.52",
          "description": "Identify the main differences between Circuit Relay and Hole Punching"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["deep"]
    }
  },
  "filecoin": {
    "1.0": {
      "description": "Understand how and why Filecoin was created, how it relates to IPFS, and how it is growing and expanding for different use cases",
      "subgoals": [
        {
          "id": "1.01",
          "description": "Understand the basics of how Filecoin leverages and implements other technologies such as IPFS, libp2p, Saturn, FVM, and Bacalhau"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.02",
          "description": " Describe how Filecoin provides and alternative to the client server model, and the key traits of the network that make that possible"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.03",
          "description": "Identify the different implementation of the Filecoin protocol, and the resources available to use them"
        },
        {
          "id": "1.04",
          "description": "Define the basic building blocks of the Filecoin network such as Providers, Deals, Sectors, and …"
        }
      ],
      "levels": ["shallow", "deep"]
    },
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  "dev-tools": {
    "1.1": {
      "description": "Understand what are Dev-Tools and why they are important for developers.",
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    "1.2": {
      "description": "Get to know the main Dev-Tools available in the IPFS and Filecoin ecosystem.",
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    },
    "1.3": {
      "description": "Know how you can add you own Dev-Tools to the Launchpad curriculum, so that other people can learn about them.",
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