🤖 Build-AI

AI is reshaping the world — builders wanted. Build-AI is a private cohort course where you build a real AI¹ app, versioned in your own private bench: graded challenges, answer keys, live sessions, and a teacher who sees your progress at every step.

### 🎯 You want to…
- 👩🏻‍💻 Create your own apps?
- 🤔 Avoid tech hassle?
- 🏗️ Become a builder in the AI era?
- 🪪 Earn your badge?

### 🥇 This course offers
- A gentle, yet engaging and efficient introduction to:
- Building apps
- AI basics
- Best software practices

### 🗺️ Formats
- Cohort — onsite or online
- 4, 8 or 15 weeks
- Everything runs in your browser — nothing to install
- Cloud storage for your work, at no additional cost

### 👀 What's inside
- Interactive playground 
- Videos and avatars
- Self-guided examples and graded challenges
- Step-by-step directions to do anything
- Building blocks ready to assemble
- Instant help and guidance, any time
- All this in your browser, nothing to install
- A place to grow your skills

### 🤹🏼‍♂️ Skills you'll learn to
- Create web apps for any screen
- Shape your interface from basic blocks
- Run `Python` scripts in your browser
- Collaborate using `GitHub` 
- Use `data` and facilitate decisions
- Ship faster and better with AI at your side
- Create your own interactive, animated demos
- Demonstrate your skills to your sponsors

### 🔁 How BUILD-AI works

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### 🐝 The build loop
```
Need: every build starts with someone's problem
Design: turn the need into something you can hold
Blocks: snap the working parts together
AI: bring in the partner that thinks with you
Ship: put it in someone's hands
Learn: what you shipped starts the next loop
```
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### 🪄 Growing your own skills
[Chad's Magics!](/courses/chad_10s2.mp4)
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> Human hands, hearts and minds work daily, 
in the background, along with AI, 
to deliver the magics of joyful learning.
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😀 Friendly foundations

Everything rides on friendly foundations — Python², Markdown³ and git⁴, tamed for beginners — so you can focus on what matters: building things that work, and making the world a better place, your style.

🎮 Try it first — two minutes

No account, no install, nothing to download: a real app runs on the page, you change one number, and the page proves itself out loud. Then you decide.

🎮 Join the game →

🚀 Ready?

Enrolled (or enrolling)? Two doors get you working:

### 1️⃣ Enroll
Enroll in your class

[🎟️ Enroll →](https://uwm.edu/registrar/enrollment/)
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### 2️⃣ Tutorial 101
Explore basic building blocks.

[📖 Tutorial →](/tutorial101)
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Artificial Intelligence is a software domain assisting people to deliver value in a way similar to what humans would do. ↩
Python is the most popular and friendly programming language, made even more friendly in this class. Nothing to install, no tech prerequisites. ↩
Markdown is a lightweight text-based note convention, perfect for smart humans and AI. ↩
git is a software tool helping builders manage versions of their work, share and collaborate — you’ll use it from afar, no command line needed. ↩