The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
MIT lecture series on command-line mastery, shell scripting, Vim, Git internals, debugging, and profiling.
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Why it's here
Every developer spends thousands of hours in the terminal, Git, and debuggers. Spending one weekend on these eleven MIT notes compounds for the rest of your career.
What you'll learn
- Shell tools, scripting, data wrangling, and command-line environments
- Editors (Vim), version control (Git data model), and metaprogramming
- Debugging, profiling, security/cryptography, and Q&A
Who it's for and time commitment
verified 2026-10-28| Time commitment | 11 lectures, 1 hour each plus hands-on shell exercises |
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| Prerequisites | Basic comfort editing files and running terminal commands |
| Format | Full written lecture notes, video recordings, and exercises |
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