Welcome

You do not need to be "good at computers" to build real things on the internet. You need a clear plan, a few free tools, and the habit of checking your work. This lesson shows you the plan.

What this course is

This course teaches you to build and publish real software with the help of AI coding tools. You start from zero. You finish with three working projects that anyone can open on their phone.

It is text-first. You read a short lesson, you do one task, you check yourself, you move on. No long videos to sit through on mobile data.

It is also honest. AI tools are powerful, and they are often wrong. You will learn to use them like a professional does: fast, but always checking.

Where this course comes from

In September 2026, Atul ran a free, in-person beginner workshop in Jammu called "AI-Assisted Coding: A Beginner's Guide". The room was full of first-timers. Most had never written a line of code. Many had only a phone.

By the end of the session, each of them had published a personal website with their own name on it, at their own address, live on the internet.

That workshop was a single session. This course is the full version: everything we wanted to teach but could not fit in, written down so you can go at your own pace.

We are Anish and Atul, your two teachers. We will be with you through every lesson.

What you will have by the end

When you finish, you will have four things you can show anyone.

1. Three live projects

Each project is real, public, and yours.

• Project 1: your personal website. A one-page site about you, published free on GitHub Pages at an address like yourname.github.io. This is the same project from the workshop, done properly.
• Project 2: an interactive app. A habit tracker or an expense tracker that remembers your data even after you close the browser. This is where you learn JavaScript, the language that makes web pages do things.
• Project 3: an app that uses AI. For example, a "study buddy" that turns your notes into quiz questions. It calls Google's Gemini AI through a small backend, so your secret key stays secret. This is the kind of project that gets attention in interviews.

You will also build something with Google Antigravity, an AI tool that can plan, write and test code for you, so you see where these tools are heading.

2. A GitHub profile

GitHub is the website where developers keep their code. Recruiters and clients look at it. By the end, yours will have real projects, a clean history of your work, and a README (a short introduction page) that explains who you are.

3. A portfolio

Your Project 1 website becomes your portfolio: one link that shows your skills, your projects, and how to contact you. You can put it on your resume, your LinkedIn, and your WhatsApp status.

4. A certificate

When you have marked all 78 lessons complete, you can claim a certificate of completion from your dashboard. You type your name exactly as you want it printed, and it cannot be changed later, so check the spelling. Anyone can verify the certificate at its public link. It is a nice thing to have. But be honest with yourself: the projects are the real proof. A certificate says you finished. A live project shows you can build.

How long it takes

Plan for about 25 to 30 hours in total, at your own pace.

That is not 30 hours of reading. It is reading, doing the tasks, getting stuck, getting unstuck, and building the three projects. You could finish in two weeks, or take two months. Both are fine.

At 30 to 45 minutes a day, that works out to roughly five to eight weeks. The next lesson explains how to pace yourself.

What you need

• A phone with internet. Enough to start, and enough for Project 1.
• A laptop or desktop, for later modules. A modest one is fine. 4 to 8 GB of RAM works. You do not need a gaming laptop or a Mac. If you do not have one yet, the setup module explains exactly what you can and cannot do on a phone or a Chromebook.
• A Google account and a GitHub account. Both free. We create them together.
• No extra money. You can complete every project in this course with free tools. Module 3 shows you the free AI tools available in India, and any current offers for students and Jio users: see The free stack.

You do not need to know maths beyond school level. You do not need to have coded before. You do need to be able to read English at the level of this page. If a word is new, it will be explained the first time it appears.

Who this course is for

• College students in any stream who want to build things, not just study them.
• Early-career people who want to add real projects to their resume.
• Anyone who has tried a coding tutorial, got lost in the first week, and gave up.
• People who have used ChatGPT or Gemini to write code, but do not understand what it gave them.

Who it is not for

• If you want to become an expert programmer in a month, no course can do that honestly. This one gets you started properly.
• If you want AI to do everything while you watch, this course will annoy you. You will be asked, again and again, to understand what you ship.

How the course is laid out

The course has 15 modules. Here is the shape of it:

1. Start here (you are here) and Foundations: how software and AI actually work, in plain words.
2. Setup and the free AI stack: your tools, installed and ready, for free.
3. Prompting for code: the core skill of the whole course.
4. Three projects, with Git, GitHub and AI tools taught along the way.
5. Shipping, safety and career: going live for real, keeping your work safe, and what to do next.
6. Resources: a prompt library, cheat sheet, troubleshooting guide and glossary you can come back to.

If you buy the course and it turns out not to be right for you, you can get a full refund if you ask within 7 days of buying and have completed less than 30% of the lessons. The refund policy has the details.

A promise, and a request

Our promise: every lesson is short, every instruction is tested, and we will never pretend something is easier or cheaper than it is.

Our request: do the tasks. Reading about coding is like reading about swimming. The tasks are where you actually learn.

Your task

1. Open a notes app on your phone, or take a sheet of paper.
2. Write down one reason you want to learn this. One line is enough. For example: "I want a portfolio for placements" or "I want to build an app for my father's shop".
3. Keep it somewhere you will see it. On a slow day, read it again.

Check yourself

• I can name the three projects I will build.
• I know roughly how many hours this course takes, and that I can go at my own pace.
• I have written down my reason for doing this course.