Most of the internet runs on Linux, and every serious infrastructure job expects you to be comfortable at a shell prompt.
This course gets you there. No graphical interface, no shortcuts — just the terminal, until it stops being frightening and starts being faster.
Jobs this leads towards
Real roles people do after this course and the ones that follow it.
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Systems administrator
Runs the servers that websites and apps live on — most of them Linux.
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DevOps / platform engineer
Automates how software is built and deployed; the command line is the workbench.
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Cybersecurity analyst
Most security tooling and most attacked servers speak Linux.
Certifications
What this course prepares you to sit. Exam vouchers are included.
- CompTIA Linux+
Is this for me?
Ninety seconds, no wrong answers, nothing recorded. It tells you how closely this course matches what you enjoy — and where to look if it does not.
What a week looks like
Day to day, so nobody is surprised.
- One evening on how it works, one evening building it: cables, switches, routers, Wi-Fi.
- You crimp your own cables and test them; a bad crimp is how you learn.
- Small networks are built, broken on purpose, and fixed.
- A capture-the-flag night near the end, in teams.
Three questions from week one
Get them wrong and you belong here. Get them right and you belong here too. Nothing is recorded.
Books worth having
None of these is required — the course lends what it needs. These are the ones worth owning.
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Professor Messer's Network+ videos (free, YouTube)
Free and exam-aligned.
What to bring
Usually nothing. Where something small helps, it is here.
- ▸A crimping tool and a bag of RJ45 connectors.
- ▸A few metres of Cat 6 cable.
- ▸A notebook: draw every network you touch.
Do this at home
Between sessions. Ten to twenty minutes; the people who do this are the ones who finish.
- Habit 1Log into your home router and write down every device you see connected.
- Habit 2Run ipconfig / ifconfig and explain each line to yourself.
- Habit 3Draw your home network on paper, including the internet side.
What you will be able to do
- Move around a filesystem and manipulate files fluently from the shell
- Understand and set Unix permissions and ownership correctly
- Manage services, processes and logs with systemd and journalctl
- Install and update software with a package manager
- Write a shell script that does something useful and handles errors
What you will use
- Ubuntu Server
- bash
- systemd
- SSH
- vim
What the course covers
The lesson plan for this course is being written. Register and we will tell you the moment it opens.