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✨ Current Focus: GitHub + LLM Integration
Building an intelligent content review system that leverages LLMs (like Gemini) to automatically review markdown files for grammar, spelling, completeness, and technical accuracy, then commits improvements for review.

🎯 Quick Project Ideas

• 📖 Documentation Enhancement: Improve existing quest documentation with AI assistance
• 🤖 AI-Powered Code Review: Create automated code quality checks using GitHub Actions
• 🎮 New Quest Creation: Design and develop a new quest following our gamified learning system
• 🔗 Integration Projects: Build connections between different tools and platforms
• 📊 Analytics Dashboard: Track learning progress and quest completion rates
• 🌐 Community Features: Enhance collaboration tools and discussion systems

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Recent Additions

Gamified Quest System 🎮

The IT-Journey now features a comprehensive Quest-based learning system that transforms technical education into epic adventures! Our quest system includes:

• 📚 58+ Interactive Quests across all skill levels and specializations
• 🎯 Level-based Progression from n00b (000) to master (111)
• ⚔️ Fantasy Theme Integration making learning engaging and memorable
• 🏆 Achievement Tracking with skill validation and portfolio building
• 🗺️ Quest Networks connecting related learning paths

Enhanced Navigation & Structure 🧭

Updated navigation system with improved organization:

• 🔍 Quick-Start Tutorials for immediate hands-on learning
• 📖 Comprehensive Documentation Library with Jekyll, development guides
• 📔 Personal Notebooks including Jupyter integration
• 🎪 About Section with configuration, themes, and community features

AI-Powered Development Guidelines 🤖

Integrated comprehensive AI development practices:

• Path-driven Development following natural software evolution patterns
• Container-first Deployment ensuring reproducible environments
• MCP Integration for standardized AI context sharing
• Collaborative Learning emphasizing open-source principles

Introduction

This is where we begin our journey — the place where we return after getting lost or wandering off. Think of this as our home base with a collection of maps, tools, and information we need to traverse through this chaotic digital world.

There are journals to capture our experiences and findings, notes to quickly reference when our memories fail, and a library of documentation that gives us the depth of knowledge to build upon and share. Everything here is open source and free to use, and the goal is to make this repository a comprehensive learning tool for everyone to use and share.

Abstract

From zero to hero collection of docs, tools, scripts, walk-throughs, and information to help with your IT journey. The IT-Journey platform now features 58+ interactive quests, comprehensive documentation, AI-powered development practices, and a thriving community ecosystem.

🎮 Zer0 to Her0 Quest System

Experience learning through our gamified quest system that transforms technical education into epic adventures:

Quest Progression Levels

1. n00b (000) - Complete beginners starting their IT journey
2. Beginner (001) - Basic concepts and foundational skills
3. Intermediate (010) - Building practical applications
4. Advanced (011) - Complex systems and architectures
5. Expert (100) - Specialized domain mastery
6. Master (101) - Teaching and mentoring others
7. Hero (110) - Industry leadership and innovation
8. Legend (111) - Pioneering new technologies

Main Quest Lines

• 🌟 Initialization World - Character creation, tool setup, fundamental concepts
• ⚔️ Development Mastery - Programming languages, frameworks, and best practices
• 🛡️ System Administration - Infrastructure, networking, and operations
• 🏰 DevOps & Deployment - CI/CD, containerization, and cloud platforms
• 🔮 AI Integration - Machine learning, automation, and AI-assisted development

Current Quest Catalog

• Init World Quests: Foundation building for new adventurers
• Language Mastery: Python, JavaScript, Bash, and more
• Tool Proficiency: Git, VSCode, Docker, and development environments
• Platform Specialization: Linux, Windows, macOS, and cloud platforms
• Project Building: Real-world applications and portfolio development

Skill Level Route

For those who prefer the route based on difficulty:

1. Beginner - 000
2. Intermediate - 001
3. Advanced - 010
4. Expert - 011
5. Master - 100
6. Hero - 101
7. Super Hero - 110
8. God - 111

Stack Attack

For those who are intermediate/advanced and want to work on a specific stack:

1. Front-end (HTML, CSS, JS)
2. Back-end (Python, PHP, Ruby, Command Line)
3. Databases (MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL)
4. Integrations (API, REST, GraphQL, SOAP)
5. Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, Linux)
6. Solutions (LAMP, Jamstack, MERN, WINS)

Source Wiki

Specialization route

For those who are advanced/expert and what to specialize in a field:

1. Infrastructure (System Administration, Networking, Operating Systems)
2. DevOps (Source Code control, CD/CI, Automated Testing, Agile Development)
3. Web Design (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jekyll, Bootstrap)
4. Software Engineering (Python, Ruby, Java, C#, C++)
5. Data Science (Python, SQL, BI, Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Hive, Kafka, Cassandra)
6. Cyber Security (Firewalls, Metadata analysis, Network Penetration, Ransomware, Vulnerability, Exploits, Malware)
7. Multimedia/Graphic Design (GIMP, Blender, Inkscape, Krita, Pencil 2D)
8. Mobile Development (Android, iOS, React Native)
9. Game Development (Unity, Unreal Engine)
10. AI (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing)

Project Route

1. Wikimedia Server - Downloads
2. Personal Website
3. Retro “Picade”
4. Mobile App
5. Web Scraper
6. Documentation Site
7. Video game

Quick Start

For those who are already familiar with core IT concepts, this is the quick start guide to get you going. There are some prerequisites listed before you can clone this repository. Each is linked to a detailed installation instruction.

Master Setup Local link Or Web link

Integrated Development Environment (Visual Studio Code) Local link Or Web link

Static Website Generator (Jekyll) Local link Or Web link

Site layout

Top Navigation Bar

<div class="bd-example-snippet bd-code-snippet">
{%- include header.html -%}
</div>

This is a fixed navigation bar that is always visible at the top of the page. It is a horizontal bar that contains links to the different sections of the site. The links are organized into five main sections:

• Quick-Start - Fast-track tutorials and essential setup guides
• Journey - Learning posts, quests, and pages documenting your adventure
• Library - Comprehensive documentation and technical guides
• Notebook - Personal notes and Jupyter notebook experiments
• About - Platform information, configuration, and community resources

Sidebar Navigation

The sidebar navigation is a vertical bar that is always visible on the left side of the page. It is automatically generated based on the navigation YAML files under _data/navigation/ directory, with individual files for each section:

• main.yml - Primary navigation structure
• home.yml - Home page specific navigation
• posts.yml - Journal and quest navigation
• docs.yml - Documentation library organization
• about.yml - About section and configuration pages
• quickstart.yml - Quick-start tutorial organization

Including a truncated navigation YAML file under the _data folder will automatically generate the sidebar and top navigation.

{% capture nav %}{% include_relative _data/navigation-old.yml %}{% endcapture %}{{ nav | truncate: 332 }}

Table Of Contents right sidebar

This is an automatically generated table of contents that is always visible on the right side of the page. It is generated from using a programs located under /_includes/toc.html

It is based on the heading tags in the markdown file. The table of contents is generated from the markdown file and is updated whenever the markdown file is updated.

Source Code Short Cuts

Above the right TOC, there is a short cut to the source code. This is a link to the GitHub repository. The link to the shortcut is based on the config file located under /_config.yml. This is the where you have forked this repository.

repository               : "bamr87/it-journey" # GitHub username/repo-name
local_repo               : "it-journey"
home_dir_pc              : &home-win '$HOME'
home_dir_mac             : &home-mac '$HOME'
local_git_pc             : [ *home-win, 'github\' ]
local_git_mac            : [ *home-mac, 'github/' ]

NOTE: Replace $HOME with your home directory. Normally, it is the user id of the machine. Just type echo $HOME in the terminal.

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