2019 Lectures

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 Management and Dependency Management
• OS Customization
• Remote Machines

Thursday, 1/31

• Web and Browsers
• Security and Privacy

Beyond MIT

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.