Build Your First Tool

Go from a cached market feed to your own deployed watchlist, and learn the loop that lets you build anything else — plan it, read what your assistant wrote, keep the key on the server.

4 units · 16 lessons · 98 min read · plus hands-on practice, at your pace

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Write the plan before you write the prompt

Safe Wiring and the First Win · 6 min read · foundations

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Unit 1 Safe Wiring and the First Win

  1. Write the plan before you write the prompt 6 min
  2. Your cockpit — where vibe-coding actually happens 6 min
  3. Why your API key must never reach the browser 7 min
  4. First data on screen, and the meter that shows what it cost 8 min
Practice Check · Unit 1 A short check · cannot be failed Start

Unit 2 First Light on Your Symbols

  1. The loop — plan, prompt, diff, read, verify, commit 6 min
  2. Read what your assistant wrote 10 min
  3. Your tickers, in one call 7 min
  4. When the data does not arrive 7 min
Practice Check · Unit 2 A short check · cannot be failed Start

Unit 3 Make It Yours

  1. Sort by what matters to you 5 min
  2. Your own context, next to the numbers 5 min
  3. Rules that tell you when to look 5 min
  4. From a demo list to the tool you actually use 5 min
Practice Check · Unit 3 A short check · cannot be failed Start

Unit 4 Make It Real, and Ship It

  1. How old is this number, really? 5 min
  2. The wall — where your tool stops being enough 6 min
  3. Fork it, deploy it, own it 5 min
  4. What you can now build, and what the exam checks 5 min
Practice Check · Unit 4 A short check · cannot be failed Start

Last Course exam

One exam, the whole course Unlocks when you have read all 16 lessons

Passing it earns the course certificate. It also counts toward the Builder track (course 9 of 13): pass every course exam in a track to earn its track certificate.