2020 Lectures

• 1/13: Course overview + the shell
• 1/14: Shell Tools and Scripting
• 1/15: Editors (Vim)
• 1/16: Data Wrangling
• 1/21: Command-line Environment
• 1/22: Version Control (Git)
• 1/23: Debugging and Profiling
• 1/27: Metaprogramming
  (build systems, dependency management, testing, CI)
• 1/28: Security and Cryptography
• 1/29: Potpourri
• 1/30: Q&A

Video recordings of the lectures are available on YouTube.

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

We thank Elaine Mello, Jim Cain, and MIT Open Learning for making it possible for us to record lecture videos; Anthony Zolnik and MIT AeroAstro for A/V equipment; and Brandi Adams and MIT EECS for supporting this class.