2019 Lectures

Click on specific topics below to see lecture videos and lecture notes.

Tuesday, 1/15

• Course overview
• Virtual machines and containers
• Shell and scripting

Thursday, 1/17

• Command-line environment
• Data wrangling

Tuesday, 1/22

• Editors
• Version control

Thursday, 1/24

• Dotfiles
• Backups
• Automation
• Machine introspection

Tuesday, 1/29

• Program introspection
• Package/dependency management
• OS customization
• Remote machines

Thursday, 1/31

• Web and browsers
• Security and privacy

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Discussion

We've also shared this class beyond MIT in the hopes that others may benefit from these resources. You can find posts and discussion on

• Hacker News
• Lobsters
• /r/learnprogramming
• /r/programming
• Twitter
• YouTube

Acknowledgments

This class was taught as part of SIPB IAP 2019 and co-sponsored by SIPB and MIT EECS.