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AI in Two Days

A free two-day class: understand what AI really is and how to talk to it, build a living website without writing a line of code, then see how software actually works — and leave with a link you can send.

2 days · 6 sessions · 2 stages · No coding required

For: Anyone, no background needed. Taught live online, in English.

What you'll be able to do

✓Two free days: what AI really is, then build something real with it
✓Day one: meet AI and build a living website without code; day two: how software actually works
✓Leave with a link you can send and the website file to keep

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Seats are approved by hand. Nothing to pay. The whole syllabus is below — read it first.

Every module, in order

A clear step forward, every module.

Stage 1

Day One — Meet AI and Build

What the machine actually is and what it is bad at, how to ask it for exactly what you want, then a real website you built by deciding, not typing.

Module 01

What Is AI, Really?

Day One · Meet AI

Brilliant — and Confidently Wrong
Software That Learned From Examples
How an AI Model Is Trained
Why Answers Change Every Time
Hallucination: Confidently Wrong
Catch It Lying: The Three-Step Check
Where It's Weak, Precisely
Does It Remember You?
How AI, Machine Learning and LLMs Fit Together
The Companies That Build AI
Why Now, Exactly?
AI Was Already in Your Day
From Passenger to Driver

ShipsA one-line explanation of AI you could tell your family, your three rules for trusting AI, and five interview-ready terms: LLM, knowledge cutoff, hallucination, generative AI, open vs closed models.

Module 02

Talk to It & Make Things

Day One · Meet AI

The Cover Letter That Said Nothing
Context: What the AI Can Actually See
Context Isn't Just Text
The Four Elements of a Good Prompt
Iterating: Talk Back, Don't Start a New Chat
The Bonus Element — Persona: Give It a Job
How Hard Should It Think?
Make the Job Permanent
Chat Tools and Building Tools
Prompting for Pictures: Subject, Style, Mood, Light
Prompting for Video: The Picture Learns to Move

ShipsA weak prompt rebuilt with the four elements — with visibly better output — plus your first AI image set and your first short video.

Module 03

Ship Your First Website

Day One · Build

A Website: A File a Browser Draws
The Request Journey: How a Visitor Reaches Your Site
Deploying: From Localhost to a Link Anyone Can Open
The Ship Loop: Six Steps You'll Repeat for Every Site
Website Styles: Name the Look You Want
Website Imagery: Six Honest Options
Your Project Folder: One Folder, One Product
The Starter Brief: Describe It Once, Well
Reviewing the Preview: Worst Problem First
Iterating: Symptom, Then the Change You Want
Your Repo: The Project's Copy on GitHub
Free Hosts: Which One Can Receive Your Form?
Push, README, Deploy: What the Host Does
The Netlify Dashboard: A Guided Tour
The Phone Test: Shipped Means a Stranger Can Use It
Website Traffic: Where Visitors Come From
Conversion: The Three-Second Test
Feedback: Show It to One Person Tonight

ShipsA live website at a real URL you can text to anyone, with a working form, plus a public repo that meets the README standard.

Stage 2

Day Two — How Software Actually Works

How software is really built, the frontend a visitor sees, and the backend, APIs and data behind it.

Module 04

How Software Is Actually Built

Day Two · How Software Actually Works

The Four Parts of Software: Always the Same Shape
The Frontend — Everything You Can Point At
The Backend — The Part You Cannot Point At
Programming Languages: Which One Does Which Job
What an API Actually Is
The Database: Where the Information Lives
One Tap Through All Four Parts
The Development Loop: How Real Teams Make Software
Building With Claude Code: The Same Loop, Fewer People
Debugging: Why These Words Save You Whole Evenings
Next: The Two Halves, Up Close

ShipsThree apps you use daily drawn as four-part diagrams, one tap traced end to end with what breaks at each stop, and the words for every step of the build loop — the vocabulary you will debug in for the rest of the course.

Module 05

The Frontend: What the Visitor Sees

Day Two · How Software Actually Works

HTML, CSS and JavaScript: Three Languages, Three Jobs
The Browser's Inspect Tool: See Any Page's Three Files
Frameworks and Components: The Tools on Top
UI Design Rules: What Separates Good From Merely Working
Loading, Empty and Error Screens: The Three Nobody Builds
Forms People Actually Finish
Speed and Accessibility: Fast and Kind
Design References: Steal Like a Professional
Getting Found, Getting Shared: SEO and the Preview Card
The Two-Minute Page Review

ShipsYour Page Judge report: three real sites put through the two-minute pass — timed on a phone on mobile data, tabbed with no mouse, the heaviest picture found, a loading, empty or broken screen quoted, the WhatsApp card checked — one first fix each, plus a screenshot of a real site's heading changed to your name.

Module 06

Backend, APIs & Data

Day Two · How Software Actually Works

The Backend: Where the Decisions Are Made
Backend Languages: What Each Is Known For
An API Is a Menu
Status Codes: The Number That Comes Back
JSON: The Shape Answers Arrive In
The APIs Your Products Will Call
Webhooks: Being Told Instead of Asking
The Wiring: API, MCP, Connector, Plugin
A Connector at Work: One Question's Trip
Plugins: Several Pieces in One Box
Four Kinds of Database: One for Each Job
Tables, Rows and Keys
Why a Database and Not Just a Spreadsheet?
The Rules of a Backend Worth Trusting
A Real API Reply, Up Close

ShipsYour API Console notes: two real services asked and read properly — the number, the time, the one value a page would show — a 404, a 400 and a 401 caused on purpose, a 429 and a 503 read without causing them, Corner Coffee's customers and bookings tables with a key each and one link, and a Python test script waiting for “Version Control & How Teams Work” in the eight-week course.

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