MIT/Course/The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

  • A practical MIT course about the tools and workflows that are often assumed but not explicitly taught in standard Computer Science classes.
  • The 2026 course description says that AI-enabled and AI-enhanced tools are folded into each lecture rather than treated as a standalone topic.

  • 2026 Topics

    • 1/12/26: Course Overview + Introduction to the Shell
    • 1/13/26: Command-line Environment
    • 1/14/26: Development Environment and Tools
    • 1/15/26: Debugging and Profiling
    • 1/16/26: Version Control and Git
    • 1/20/26: Packaging and Shipping Code
    • 1/21/26: Agentic Coding
    • 1/22/26: Beyond the Code
    • 1/23/26: Code Quality

  • Links

    • 2026 Lectures
    • About the Class