2026 Lectures

• 1/12: Course Overview + Introduction to the Shell
• 1/13: Command-line Environment
• 1/14: Development Environment and Tools
• 1/15: Debugging and Profiling
• 1/16: Version Control and Git
• 1/20: Packaging and Shipping Code
• 1/21: Agentic Coding
• 1/22: Beyond the Code
• 1/23: Code Quality

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
• X
• Bluesky
• Mastodon
• LinkedIn
• YouTube

Acknowledgments

We thank Elaine Mello and MIT Open Learning for making it possible for us to record lecture videos. We thank Luis Turino / SIPB for supporting this class as part of SIPB IAP 2026.