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Teach agentic engineering to beginners

Ready-to-use workshop and course outlines built on the Agentic Makers Guide, the 6-stop Path and the 28 bilingual lessons. Free to adapt for classrooms, bootcamps and study groups under CC BY 4.0.

Format A · 2-hour workshop

From zero to a live personal page

  1. 00:00–00:20 · Install the guide + mental model (L01, L02, L05).
  2. 00:20–00:45 · One-question-at-a-time Spec interview for a personal page (Stop 03).
  3. 00:45–01:30 · Build on a branch, inspect localhost:3000 and open a Preview (Stop 04–05).
  4. 01:30–02:00 · Pre-publish quality check, merge to main and share the live URL (Stop 06).

Classroom rules

Why this works with non-programmers

  • Students keep permission mode on Manual so they read every plain-sentence explanation before a command runs.
  • Every student works in a private GitHub repository and gets isolated Vercel Preview links for grading.
  • Zero shared API keys: students use Level 1–2 projects without paid APIs first, then low-cap individual keys.

Format B · 6-week course outline

01Week 1 · Setup & the mental modelInstall the Agentic Makers Guide, create the Development folder, connect GitHub and Vercel, and complete Stop 01 (Setup) + Lessons L01–L04.
02Week 2 · First repo & spec-driven developmentInitialize Git, create the private GitHub twin, and run the Spec interview for a Level 1 project (Stop 02–03 + Lessons L05–L12).
03Week 3 · Breaking the spec into a planReview tasks/plan.md and tasks/todo.md, inspect skills, and build the app skeleton (Stop 04 + Lessons L13–L14).
04Week 4 · Branches, Previews & the debugging loopWork on a feature branch, open a pull request, inspect a Vercel Preview, and practice reproducing and fixing a bug (Stop 05 + Lessons L15–L20).
05Week 5 · Secrets, databases & AI safetyAdd environment variables safely in .env.local and Vercel, connect a Neon development branch, and review rate limits (Lessons L21–L25).
06Week 6 · Quality bar & publishing to ProductionRun the 27-check pre-publish review, merge to main, verify Production, and present the live URL (Stop 06 + Lessons L26–L28).

Copy for your agent: generate lesson slides

Create a 10-slide markdown outline for Week 1 of the Agentic Makers course in my language, using the plain-language analogies from Lessons L01, L02, L05 and L06.

Last reviewed Nov 8, 2026