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Your First Real Project

A step-by-step guide to building and deploying your first web application from scratch.

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Use A Public Prompt First

Review and debug

This path goes deeper than the public prompt library, but the prompt pack below is the fastest way to apply the same supervision habits before you dive into the full curriculum.

Matching public prompts

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Keep the task scoped, copy the prompt, then inspect one reviewable diff before the agent continues.

Need the safest first move instead? Open the curated sample prompts before you browse the broader library.

Working With AI ToolsWorking With AI Tools

API Keys, Rate Limits, and Cost Management

Understand AI API pricing, rate limits, budgets, and how to monitor and control your AI spending.

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"Help me operationalize AI API usage for this app.
I need:
1. a secure API key handling plan for local, CI, and production
2. a rate-limit and retry strategy for 429s
3. a budget recommendation

Module 1Setting Up Your Dev Environment

Get your computer ready to build software

Module 2Understanding Next.js and React

The frameworks that power most AI-generated code

Module 3Your First Database

Get data persistence working in your app