🧭 Galhoom Path — Study Template (Global Blueprint)

🛤️ Part of Galhoom Path · Track 1 — Study (global blueprint)
This repository belongs to the Galhoom Path organization (Study · Foundations · Problem Solving · Interview Prep · Projects). It is the shared template for every Study-track repo.
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This repository holds the shared blueprint used by every study repo in galhoom-path.

One file drives the method:

📄 template.md

It defines Lectures → Interview Questions → Visual Maps → Final Project, naming rules, tutor/student roles, living-repo updates, series-without-overlap, and the AI prompt to generate a new subject repo.

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🗺️ Method (four tracks, strict order)

01-Lectures/              →  learn
02-Interview-Questions/   →  explain
03-Visual-Maps/           →  see / map the system (Mermaid in map.md — must look clear on GitHub)
04-Final-Project/         →  build

Track	Job
Lectures	One concept per session · analogy first · learner writes every line
Interview Questions	Subject-mapped Q&A (≠ org Track 4 Interview Prep)
Visual Maps	Flows, sequences, layers · GitHub-clear Mermaid · last map = end-to-end system view
Final Project	Capstone milestones (≠ org Track 5 practice builds)

Learn → Explain → Map → Build. A track starts only after the previous track’s Review Checklist is complete.

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🎯 Why this repo exists

Without a global template	With this repo
Each study repo drifts into its own rules	One official method for PHP, OOP, OOD, Design Patterns, Laravel, …
Hard to remember which copy is newest	This repo is the source of truth
New subjects start from memory	New subjects start by copying template.md

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🔄 Sync rule (mandatory)

Improve the method in any study repo
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1. Update template.md HERE first (study-template)
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2. Copy the same change into every active study repo's template.md
   (and .cursor/rules/template-sync.mdc when Section 19 changes)
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3. Bump "Template last synced" date in this file to today

Never leave a study repo’s template.md newer than this one without pushing the change back here.

When you only change subject content (lectures, questions, maps, project) — do not touch this repo.

When you change structure, conventions, or method — update this repo in the same change.

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🚀 How to create a new study repo

1. Create an empty public repo under galhoom-path (for example php-ood).
2. Copy template.md into the new repo root.
3. Copy .cursor/rules/template-sync.mdc from Section 19 of template.md (or from an existing study repo).
4. Fill the placeholders in Section 2 of template.md for the new subject (including {{MAP_COUNT}}).
5. Paste the AI prompt from Section 18 into a new chat, attach template.md, and generate the scaffold.
6. Add the new repo to the Learning Series table on the org homepage.
7. Link Comes after / Leads to to the neighboring repos — no repeated lessons.

The scaffold creates four tracks: 01-Lectures/ → 02-Interview-Questions/ → 03-Visual-Maps/ → 04-Final-Project/.

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📦 Study repos that use this template

Repo	Role
php-fundamentals	Series 1 — core PHP · 🟢 Active
php-oop	Series 2 — OOP · 🟢 Active
php-ood	Series 3 — OOD (SOLID / GRASP) · ⬜ Planned
php-design-patterns	Series 4 — Design Patterns · ⬜ Planned
Laravel, Filament, …	Series 5+ · ⬜ Planned

Each of those keeps its own copy of template.md so the repo stays self-contained for learners and AI tutors. This repo is where the shared method is maintained.

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📁 What’s in this repository

study-template/
├── README.md      ← you are here
└── template.md    ← the global Galhoom Study Method blueprint

No lecture folders. No student practice files. Method only.

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🛠️ Maintainer

@Galhoom22 · Organization: galhoom-path

📘 Read. ✍️ Write. 💬 Explain. 🗺️ Map. 🏗️ Build. 🏅 Master.