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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Shell, git and tooling. The gap every self-taught engineer has.

The tooling nobody teaches: shell, editors, version control, debugging, profiling and security hygiene. MIT built it because every graduate arrived able to write algorithms and unable to use the machine they ran on.

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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

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Course overview

It is the gap every self-taught engineer has, and it takes a fraction of the time you would expect.

What you will learn

  • Use the shell and its tooling properly rather than by memorised recipe
  • Work fluently with git beyond commit and push
  • Debug and profile instead of adding print statements
  • Automate the repetitive parts of your own workflow

Who this course is for

Self-taught developers the semester nobody gave you
CS students the practical skills your degree assumes you picked up

Course details

FormatRecorded lectures with exercises
LevelBeginner
PriceFree
Time12 hours
CertificateNo certificate

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