Level 1

The Fundamentals

Learn how software works, then direct an AI build of your own from idea to first real users.

Start here if you are newer to how software works and want to build with AI tools rather than only approve what they propose. Every term is explained once, in plain words, before any chapter relies on it, and every chapter ends with a short drill you can run with or without tools installed. By the last chapter you have shipped a small AI feature and watched real people use it.

The four parts are one ladder. In Part I you build a working picture of how software runs, so the plan an AI tool prints makes sense. In Part II you walk the seven layers every product is built from and decide, for your own idea, where each feature runs, what it costs, and who may use it. In Part III you put a model inside that picture, on a build you scope yourself. In Part IV you take that build to real users and learn from what they do.