These hands-on are a set of "simple Beginner's guides" that provide a fast-paced introduction to the basic technologies required for many of my courses at the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (Barcelona School of Informatics, FIB), the teaching institution of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) in charge of university education in the fields of computer science, computer engineering, and related matters.

This set of Hands-on is intended for those students on my Masters' Courses who have no prior knowledge of these technologies, to help them learn the required background knowledge, necessary to follow the courses. Let me stress again the importance of hands-on practice while you are exploring new technical knowledge. My recommendation is that you should read these guides on a computer and try to follow.

• Hands-on 0: Run a Linux OS in a Virtual Machine (Only for Windows users)
• Hands-on 1: Git and GitHub Quick Start
• Hands-on 2: Markdown syntax
• Hands-on 3: Python Quick Start
• Hands-on 4: Python Development Environment Quick Start
• Hands-on 5: Getting Started in the Cloud with AWS

Acknowledgements: I would like to thank some of my former students for his help with proofreading this documentation and improving it: Eloy Gil, Dani Cea, Xisco Sastre and Mauro Gómez.