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Ship Your First Thing

Modules

The course in order. Each module builds on the one before it — start at Module 0 unless you know what you're skipping.

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  1. Module 0

    5 lessons · 1 hr 15 min

    Welcome

    Module 0 prepares your environment so the rest of the course flows: welcome, hardware check, cost-path triage (BEFORE account creation per Phase 1 D-16), account creation, and a first-run walkthrough of GitHub Codespaces.

  2. Module 1

    4 lessons · 2 hr 40 min

    How software works (mental models)

    Module 1 is four bundled mental-model lessons covering the durable shape of any web product: how the browser talks to the server, how the server talks to the database, how access is gated, and how code goes live on the internet.

    locked — complete the previous module

  3. Module 2

    6 lessons · 3 hr 35 min

    The developer toolchain

    Module 2 introduces the six tools you will use to write and ship software, one per lesson.

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  4. Module 3

    4 lessons · 3 hr 30 min

    The loop in depth

    Module 3 names the durable AI-coding loop end-to-end: **intent → ask → evaluate → steer**.

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  5. Module 3.5

    4 lessons · 2 hr 30 min

    Reading code, just enough

    Module 3.5 teaches the pattern-recognition floor a non-coder needs to recognize when an AI agent has gone wrong — without writing code from scratch.

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Coming later

  1. Module 4Designing & building the thread project
  2. Module 5Operating the build
  3. Module 6After it's live
  4. Module 7Where to go from here