# Learning paths

Four guided routes through the wiki — platform engineer, data engineer, iOS engineer, reviewer or scholar — each a checklist of pages and exercises in the order that builds understanding.

- Page: <https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/learning-paths/>
- Updated: 2026-09-27
- From the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji — Knowledge Base wiki. Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is quoted verbatim, cited by Ang, and never altered.

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A path is a checklist: pages to read and exercises to do, in an order that builds on itself. Tick
items as you go — the ticks are remembered in your browser only (nothing is sent anywhere) — and
start again whenever you like. Every path begins with the same two stops: the
[reverence checklist](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/onboarding/reverence-checklist/) and
[Scripture 101](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/scripture/), because the one rule of this project comes before any
code.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    accTitle: The four learning paths share a start and branch by role
    accDescr: Every path starts with the reverence checklist and Scripture 101, then branches: platform engineer, data engineer, iOS engineer, reviewer or scholar.
    start([Reverence checklist · Scripture 101]) --> pe[Platform engineer<br/>the API, search, verification, delivery]
    start --> de[Data engineer<br/>the corpus, the pipeline, the pin, the ledger]
    start --> ie[iOS engineer<br/>the contract, the database pair, Nitnem]
    start --> rs[Reviewer or scholar<br/>what to check, where, and how to say no]
```

- [Platform engineer](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/learning-paths/platform-engineer/) — someone who will change the API, the website or the pipeline that ships them (about two days)
- [Data engineer](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/learning-paths/data-engineer/) — someone who will work on the corpus, the database, the gates or a dataset release (about two days)
- [iOS engineer](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/learning-paths/ios-engineer/) — someone who will change the app (about a day and a half)
- [Reviewer or scholar](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/learning-paths/reviewer-scholar/) — a Granthi, a scholar or a maintainer who reviews changes and never writes code (half a day)

Each exercise on a path is runnable with `make` targets alone and says what output to expect;
the [exercises index](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/exercises/) lists them all.