LEVEL UP OVER WINTER BREAK

@ronald.jabouin

1.4K followers · usually 1.1K views a post

Views

7.2K

Likes

602

Comments

4

Shares

32

Selling · Course / Info

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/past/ ↗

Why it worked

The video targets a specific audience (CS majors) with a clear value proposition (leveling up skills over winter break) and offers a concrete solution (a free MIT course). The use of on-screen text and a direct URL makes the information easily accessible and actionable.

Summary

This video promotes an MIT course called "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education" which covers essential tools for software developers. The course is recommended for CS majors looking to improve their skills for personal projects and internships.

Structure

1Introduction to leveling up over winter break
2Introducing the MIT course "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education"
3Overview of course content (command line, Git, Vim, debugging)
4Highlighting the practical utility of the course for projects and internships
5Providing the URL for past lectures and information on upcoming lectures
6Personal reflection and call to action

Original caption

I wish I knew this sooner #csmajor #computerscience

More from @ronald.jabouin

Their other posts in the index, biggest breakout first.

Product placement

The video prominently features and discusses the MIT course "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education", including its content and URL.

Call to action

You can check out the past lectures for this class at this URL or you can wait for the 2026 lectures to come out on January 12th.

On-screen text

LEVEL UP OVER WINTER BREAK The Missing Semester of Your CS Education IAP 2026 Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there's one critical subject that's rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. We'll teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more! Students spend hundreds of hours over their career using these tools over the course of their education (and thousands over their career), so it makes sense to make the experience as fluid and frictionless as possible. Mastering these tools not only enables you to spend less time on figuring out how to bend your tools to your will, but it also lets you solve problems that would previously seem impossibly complex. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/past/

Transcript

If you're a CS major that wants to level up this winter break, you want to check out this MIT course. It's called the missing semester of your CS degree and there's eight lessons that go over basic things that you absolutely should know as a software developer. It goes over using the command line, get, vim, debug and even more. To be completely honest, looking at the lectures and what's covered. Most of this is going to be way more useful for personal projects and your upcoming internship than most of the classes you're taking in school. You can check out the past lectures for this class at this URL or you can wait for the 2026 lectures to come out on January 12th. I personally wish I knew about this sooner. What's one thing in CS you wish you knew sooner.