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MIT Missing Semester 2026

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91 points vismit2000 | 1 comments | 15 Dec 25 12:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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ternus ◴[15 Dec 25 15:27 UTC] No.46275715[source]▶
It's interesting to see that MIT is still like this. Canonically, there were no classes that taught programming per se: if you needed that, there were (often volunteer-taught) courses over IAP, the January Independent Activities Period, that would attempt to fill the gap - but you were still expected to pick it up on your own. I taught the Caffeinated Crash Course in C way back when. Good times.
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1. fsckboy ◴[15 Dec 25 21:00 UTC] No.46280571[source]▶
i've often marvelled that hardly anybody on the MIT CS faculty has ever considered RDBMS / SQL / Codd-Date / relational model worthy of pedagogical consideration. you might cover some crud when surveying semaphores and mutexes, but actually learn SQL? nope.