Week 1
What a Program Is
Open a one-page site on their machine and write one sentence: this product helps ___ do ___.
12-week path
AI & Coding
A separate 12-week path. SOLIDWORKS & CAD is the other one.
Why this path
Participants build software another person can open. A page is on screen the first day. By week 8 that page is a public website. By Demo Day the same job runs as a phone app.
The early weeks exist so the tools are not magic. Participants learn what a program is, write JavaScript they can point at, and compute one neuron by hand. A language model is that arithmetic plus a guess at the next word. They then use Grok, Grok Build, and Grok Bot on the same project, with a written rule for what the bot may do.
The website is the ship we can count on. The phone app is the one this path is aiming for.
The twelve weeks
Week 2
JavaScript: Names, Decisions, Functions
A button that makes a real choice. They can point at the line they wrote.
Week 3
Vectors and a Neuron
Compute a dot product by hand, change one weight, and flip a yes/no.
Week 4
How a Language Model Works
Run two prompt loops and throw out one answer that was fluent and wrong.
Week 5
Steer Grok
Give a role, a goal, and a constraint. Accept one change and reject one.
Week 6
Grok Build
Approve a plan, read the diff, and make the first git commit.
Week 7
Grok Bot, on a Leash
Write what the bot may do, must ask, and must never do. Log one action.
Week 8
Ship the Website
Publish a public URL and open it on a phone. This is the minimum ship.
Week 9
Phone App, Two Screens
Run the same job in Expo Go on a real phone. It is an app, not the website in a browser.
Week 10
The App Does the Job
The core action works three times, survives bad input, and keeps private case data out of prompts.
Week 11
Make It Publishable
Add a name, icon, screenshots, and a privacy line. A partner finishes the job without a speech.
Week 12
Capstone — Product Demo Day
Show the live site, the phone, what they wrote, what Grok wrote, and one v2.
SOLIDWORKS & CAD is a separate 12-week path. See that sequence.