“Year zero” for CS students? Use a terminal, etc

Question

I vaguely recall something along the lines of an online "how to computer for CS" resource or class for incoming computer science students.It covered things like using a terminal and a package manager. It might have been MIT. It might have been a free online course.Does anybody remember something like that?

panyang · Accepted Answer

Do you mean The missing semester of CS education? https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

pxhb · Answer

University of Michigan has a &lsquo;c4cs&rsquo;https://c4cs.github.io/archive/w18/

vincent-manis · Answer

When I proposed a course like this 35 years ago (with then-current tools), my colleagues told me that this was &ldquo;not university-level material&rdquo;. CS students who don't know how to use tools effectively, and how to learn new ones are going to be forever at a disadvantage.

jamesgeck0 · Answer

When I was in school, the student-run ACM chapter covered topics like that. Tool-oriented topics like source control and debuggers were not covered in the regular CS courses because the field changed too quickly, supposedly.

“Year zero” for CS students? Use a terminal, etc

Do you mean The missing semester of CS education? https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

University of Michigan has a ‘c4cs’
https://c4cs.github.io/archive/w18/

When I proposed a course like this 35 years ago (with then-current tools), my colleagues told me that this was “not university-level material”. CS students who don't know how to use tools effectively, and how to learn new ones are going to be forever at a disadvantage.

When I was in school, the student-run ACM chapter covered topics like that. Tool-oriented topics like source control and debuggers were not covered in the regular CS courses because the field changed too quickly, supposedly.