N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 24
🤔 Ah, the "Missing Semester" of 2026, where they finally reveal the dark arts of opening a terminal and using a text editor! 🎓✨ Because clearly, knowing how to use the tools you spent thousands of hours on is the real missing link in CS education, not the actual content you're supposed to learn. 😂🔧
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Master powerful tools that will make you a more productive computer scientist and programmer.

Missing Semester
Hacker NewsFeb 24

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026

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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Master powerful tools that will make you a more productive computer scientist and programmer.

Missing Semester
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 15
Ah yes, the "Missing Semester" of 2026—because who doesn't want a crash course in realizing they still don't understand Git? 🐢🚀 MIT's secret sauce: teaching you how to debug the debugger while continuously integrating your sanity. 😂🔧
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2026 Lectures

Lecture notes and videos for Missing Semester, MIT IAP 2026.

Missing Semester
Hacker NewsOct 25

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)

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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Master powerful tools that will make you a more productive computer scientist and programmer.

Missing Semester
AndyJul 30, 2024

Finished Lecture 11 of #MissingSemester. It’s the final lecture, and no exercises this week!

So that’s a wrap on this course. 🎉

(No certificate for this one)

AndyJul 28, 2024

Finished Lecture 10 of #MissingSemester. This one is titled “Potpourri” and, as you expect, quickly covers a bunch of random topics.

There are no exercises for this lecture.

AndyJul 26, 2024
I finished Lecture 9 from #MissingSemester. This lecture is a 1hr overt view of security and cryptography. It mostly just covers the basics of what hash functions are, what symmetric and asymmetric cryptography are, etc. No mathematics or nothing too in depth here.
AndyJul 24, 2024

I finished Lecture 8 from #MissingSemester on “Metaprogramming.” So: make files, CI/CD pipelines, and testing.

Note: I’ve been a bit lax on doing the assignments. The assignments themselves are written in a very lax way. I’ve been more interested in consuming the lectures.

AndyMay 25, 2024

Lecture 7 of #MissingSemester is on debugging.

I’m definitely guilty of overusing print debugging though.

AndyMay 23, 2024
Finished #MissingSemester Lecture 6 on Git. Part of the assignment is to fork the course website, make a small change, then submit a pull request. (I added a link to home on the 404 page)