AI Beginner Roadmap
A 30-day week-by-week roadmap for total beginners: understand AI concepts, try the tools, prompt well, and build lasting habits.
Computer Learning Academy
Beginner-friendly tutorials, cheat sheets, and plain-English explainers that help you build real technology skills — no jargon, no hype.
Learning paths
Guided paths help beginners, developers, and professionals avoid random learning and build confidence in order.
A 30-day week-by-week roadmap for total beginners: understand AI concepts, try the tools, prompt well, and build lasting habits.
A four-stage beginner path from zero AI knowledge to confident everyday use, with readings, practice, and checkpoints.
A staged roadmap for working developers: model APIs, prompt design, retrieval, evaluation, and shipping AI features responsibly.
Featured tutorials
Hands-on introductions to AI, prompt engineering, machine learning, and practical workflows.
What AI is, the three kinds you already use, and a hands-on first exercise with a chat assistant.
A clear definition of AI: narrow vs general, rule-based vs learned systems, everyday examples, and common myths.
What the ten most serious web application risks actually mean, with everyday analogies and what each one looks like in real life.
Cheat sheets
Clear, scannable summaries for prompts, model terms, AI safety, and future technical topics.
27 essential AI terms in plain English, grouped by theme: core concepts, how models learn, using AI tools, and risks and limits.
A one-page checklist for using AI assistants safely — what to share, what to connect, and what to verify.
The frontier embedding models, and how they're actually rated: MTEB, Recall@K, NDCG, and Matryoshka truncation in plain English.
Project starters
The exact commands and setup steps to scaffold a new project in each stack — no re-learning ritual required.
Zero to a running React + TypeScript app in about two minutes, with the commands you always forget.
Spin up a new Android app in Android Studio, get the emulator running, and know which files matter.
The dotnet CLI commands to scaffold a console app, web API, or full solution — no Visual Studio wizard required.
Blog and AI news
Beginner-friendly advice and plain-English explainers for changing AI developments.
Why sequenced learning beats random tutorials: lower cognitive load, prerequisites in order, and visible progress that keeps you going.
Cheat sheets work as retrieval practice aids, not crutches. A simple workflow: skim before learning, recall after, keep them to one page.
How to read an AI model announcement: what capability claims, benchmarks, context windows, and multimodality mean for everyday users.
Resource library
Reusable resources that support future categories including Python, cloud, cybersecurity, web development, automation, and career skills.
The practical Python setup for AI learning: installing Python, virtual environments, pip, VS Code, and the starter libraries explained.
A realistic map of AI career directions — from using AI in your current role to ML engineering — with skills and portfolio proof for each.
A guided index of every collection on this site — tutorials, cheat sheets, paths, starters, models, best practices, news — and how to combine them.
Learning philosophy
Every topic starts with plain language and concrete examples.
Lessons focus on useful skills, not buzzwords or shortcuts.
Paths connect concepts to projects, portfolios, and workplace value.
Structured MDX content keeps the academy easy to expand.