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Week 1 of 8
AI Fundamentals for Builders
Learn how AI works and experience what it means to build with AI.
What You'll Learn
- What AI is and how it works
- What generative AI is
- What ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini can do
- Introduction to AI coding
- How to give AI clear instructions
- Basic prompting
- How to ask AI to create and modify code
- How to read and understand simple AI-generated code
- How to test and improve what AI creates
Practical Assignment
Build Your First Game With AI
Students will use AI to create a simple game inside a single HTML file.
For example:
- 🎮 Click the Button Game
- 🎮 Rock Paper Scissors
- 🎮 Guess the Number
- 🎮 Catch the Ball
- 🎮 Memory Game
The student doesn't need prior programming experience.
They might start with a prompt such as:
“Create a simple browser game using HTML, CSS and JavaScript in one HTML file. Make it beginner-friendly and explain the code.”
Then they use AI to modify it:
“Make the game more colorful.”
“Add a score counter.”
“Add a timer.”
“Add a restart button.”
“Make it work on mobile.”
This teaches the fundamental AI Maker workflow:
IDEA → PROMPT → CODE → TEST → IMPROVE
Week 1 Outcome
By the end of Week 1, every student should have created and played a working game that they built with the help of AI.
They should be able to say:
“I made this.”
Even if AI helped write the code.