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AI engineering track

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AI engineering curriculum

Work through browser-first lessons, coding exercises, checkpoints, and support flows.

10

phases

80+ hrs

lessons & labs

8

hands-on labs

Phase 1: Welcome to the Future

Understand what AI is, where it shows up, and how to think about it safely before writing production code.

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What is AI? Separating Fact from Sci-Fi

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15 min
Why So Many AIs? General vs. Specialized AI Models

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15 min
The Hook: Creating Magic with Free AI Tools

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15 min
AI Ethics: Bias, Fairness, and Doing No Harm

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15 min
Safety First: Guardrails and Deepfakes

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15 min
How AI is Built: The Cloud vs Your Computer

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15 min
Your Browser Workspace: Setting Up for Free

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15 min

Phase 2: Speaking Python

Python from zero to certification-ready, taught entirely in the browser.

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Storing Information: Variables and Numbers

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15 min
Making Decisions: Ifs and Loops

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15 min
Writing Reusable Code: Functions

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15 min
Grouping Data: Lists and Dictionaries

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15 min
Handling Mistakes: Errors and Exceptions

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15 min
Building Virtual Objects: OOP Basics

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15 min
Borrowing Code: Modules and Imports

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15 min
Activity: Using Python to Call a Free AI API

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15 min

Phase 3: Playing with Data Grids

The math and data-handling skills behind beginner machine learning models.

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Organizing Data: The Grid System of AI

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15 min
Teaching Machines to Guess: Basic Trend Lines

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The Engine of Learning: How AI Measures Mistakes

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15 min
Sorting Data: Putting Things into Categories

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15 min
Branching Logic: Decision Trees

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15 min
Finding Hidden Patterns: Grouping Data Automatically

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How Good is My Model? Grading AI Performance

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Real-World Data Prep: Cleaning Messy Data in the Browser

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15 min

Phase 4: Brain Mechanics

Build tiny neural networks by hand — neurons, backprop, attention, and text generation.

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Layering the Brain: How AI Connects the Dots

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Learning from Mistakes: Updating the Brain

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Brain Switches: Turning Signals On and Off

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15 min
Finding the Best Path: Speeding Up Learning

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Running Models Fast and Free in Your Browser

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Activity: Training a Tiny Image Detector in the Browser

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15 min
Paying Attention: How AI Reads Full Sentences

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15 min
How AI Writes: Generating Text Step by Step

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15 min

Phase 5: Talking to AI

Reliable prompts, structured outputs, tool calls, and production-ready API routes.

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The Anatomy of a Good Prompt

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15 min
Roles and Messages: How Chat Models Listen

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15 min
Show, Don't Tell: Few-Shot Prompting

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Structured Outputs: Getting Clean JSON

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15 min
Giving AI Hands: Tool Calling

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15 min
Production-Ready: Making AI Calls Reliable

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Phase 6: Giving AI a Memory

Embeddings, vector search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — so AI answers from trusted sources instead of guessing.

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Turning Words into Numbers: Embeddings

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Finding Similarities: Search by Meaning

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Breaking Books into Pages: Chunking Documents

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15 min
Setting Up a Free Serverless Vector Database

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15 min
Building a Knowledge Bot that Reads Your PDFs

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15 min
Making It Smarter: Checking Answers Against Sources

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15 min
Searching Images and Text Together

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15 min
Activity: Connect a Hugging Face Model to Memory

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15 min

Phase 7: Digital Workers

Autonomous agents that plan, use tools, remember their steps, work in teams, and report what they did.

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The Agent Loop: Think, Act, Observe

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15 min
Building an AI Worker that Searches for You

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15 min
Keeping Track of Time: Step Memory

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15 min
Giving the Agent a Toolbox of Free APIs

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15 min
Agent Brains: Short-Term vs. Long-Term Memory

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15 min
Teamwork: Two AI Agents Talking

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15 min
Watching Agents Work: Traces and Logs

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15 min
Activity: Build a Smart NPC with Free APIs

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15 min
Activity: Build a Free-Tier Auto-Researcher

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15 min

Phase 8: The Silicon and the Shield

The hardware that powers AI and the security that protects it — chips, data centers, cost, and the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs.

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What Powers AI? CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, and NPUs

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Inside an AI Data Center

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15 min
Activity: Calculating the Cost of a Query

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15 min
The Dark Side: Data Privacy and Data Poisoning

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15 min
Hacking AI: Prompt Injection and Jailbreaks

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15 min
OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Models

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15 min
Activity: Defend a Vulnerable AI Bot

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15 min

Phase 9: Deploying to the World

Capstone projects (rolling out): build and ship full-stack AI products to your portfolio on free hosting, with safe server-side API calls.

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Project: AI-Powered Markdown Editor

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Project: Customer Support RAG Bot

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Project: Autonomous Data Analyst

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Project: Multimodal Voice Tutor

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Launching and Securing Your Portfolio on Vercel

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15 min

Phase 10: Landing the Job

Turn your course work into a job: understand the AI market, build your brand, and prepare for the technical interview.

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The Modern AI Job Market

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15 min
Learning in Public

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15 min
Building Your AI LinkedIn and CV

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15 min
Soft Skills: Explaining AI to Business Teams

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15 min
Preparing for the Technical AI Interview

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15 min