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TIL there is a course from MIT called the “Missing Semester" that goes through the Shell, Vim, Git, data wrangling, etc — all the stuff that CS students are just ‘supposed to know’ but aren’t usually formally taught in a classroom

Read more missing.csail.mit.edu

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