🤖 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.
🚀 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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bot: doc
face:
zoom: 1.2
script:
- say: "Hi, I'm Doc. This page is the door to Build-AI. I will walk you through it. Press me to pause."
- at: want
say: "Four questions. If one of them is yours, this course was made for you."
- at: inside
say: "This is what you get, and what you will be able to do. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing to install."
- at: loop
do: open
with: "🔁 How BUILD-AI works"
say: "Let me open the loop."
- at: loop_ring
say: "Need. Design. Blocks. AI. Ship. Learn. Every build goes around this ring, then goes around again."
pause: 1
- at: chad
do: play
say: "This is Chad's magic. Watch a few seconds."
pause: 5
- at: chad
do: pause
say: "Human hands and minds make this, with AI beside them. You will too."
- at: inside
do: xray
say: "Everything on this page is text. The gear opens it. You learn here by playing with the text, not by reading about it."
pause: 2
- do: read
say: "You will experiment a lot, with AI at your side. And you will ask each page to prove it behaves. The proof is on the page, green or red, for anyone to see."
- at: foundations
say: "Humans, AI and code play and learn together here. That is the whole method."
- at: try
say: "Two minutes, no account. Press the button, change one number, and watch the page prove itself."
- at: doors
say: "Already enrolled? Two doors. Your class, or the tutorial. See you inside."
stories: {}
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Artificial Intelligenceis a software domain assisting people to deliver value in a way similar to what humans would do. ↩ -
Pythonis the most popular and friendly programming language, made even more friendly in this class. Nothing to install, no tech prerequisites. ↩ -
Markdownis a lightweight text-based note convention, perfect for smart humans and AI. ↩ -
gitis a software tool helping builders manage versions of their work, share and collaborate — you’ll use it from afar, no command line needed. ↩