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Level 2 · M.Sc

MSc Software Craftsmanship & Engineering Practice

Software · Live · v0

Software craftsmanship across eight languages — clean code, refactoring, patterns, testing, and engineering process.

Path type

Software

Requirements

Open entry

Enrollment

€9.95

Deadline

Next cohort starts 2027-09-06 (AY 2027/28)

Length

~1 year · 49 phases

Language

English · Español

Content freshness

Curriculum updated 2026-08-23 · content rev 65e6a9b3

Cortex Credits (CC)

126 CC
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Syllabus

View the phase syllabus

0. Foundations, git & the polyglot toolchain
1. What "craft" is & the gild anchor
2. The professional editor, LSP & the tooling spine
3. Naming & reading code
4. Functions & methods
5. Guard clauses & taming conditionals
6. Replacing conditionals with structure
7. DRY, coupling & cohesion
8. SOLID, with honest critique
9. KISS, YAGNI & simple design
10. The refactoring discipline
11. Core refactorings I: composing & moving
12. Core refactorings II: data & conditionals
13. Code smells & refactoring to patterns
14. Legacy code
15. TDD fundamentals
16. The xUnit toolbox, polyglot
17. Test doubles
18. Property-based testing
19. Coverage, its limits & mutation testing
20. GoF patterns I: creational
21. GoF patterns II: structural
22. GoF patterns III: behavioral
23. Idiom vs pattern & antipatterns
24. UI architecture patterns: MVC / MVP / MVVM / MVU
25. Enterprise patterns & the SQL data layer
26. CLI craft & argument parsing
27. Terminal output craft & shell completion
28. TUI frameworks & REPL design
29. Serialization, config, logging & error handling
30. BDD & ATDD with Cucumber (Gherkin)
31. Robot Framework & keyword-driven acceptance testing
32. UI / end-to-end & contract testing
33. Interactive-prompt & PTY-driven CLI/TUI testing
34. Git internals & everyday craft
35. Branching models & history craft
36. Collaboration, hooks & CI gating
37. Agile, XP & lean methods (honestly)
38. Continuous integration/delivery & the deployment pipeline
39. Capstone: gild is complete & polyglot
40. Hardening, postmortem & the craft ethos
41. Portal integration
42. POSIX sh & bash scripting foundations
43. Text-wrangling I: grep, find & xargs
44. Text-wrangling II: sed & awk
45. Structured data with jq
46. Transfer, remote & archive: curl, wget, ssh, tar & cpio
47. fish as a daily driver
48. Media & file manipulation: CLI recipes

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Enrolment prerequisites

• A verified account and admissions-committee approval.