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Study excellent foundations, then apply them in realistic software engineering work completed in your own editor and repository.
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01 · LEARN
Free foundations
Read deeply, build from first principles, and keep the imported academy open to everyone.
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02 · BUILD
Your environment
Complete realistic work in your own editor, repository, compute, and AI workflow.
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03 · PROVE
Inspectable evidence
Bind review to an immutable commit and show exactly what supports each skill claim.
“Obsessed with the AI Engineering from Scratch repo.” — AI engineer at Google
Most AI material teaches in scattered pieces. A paper here, a fine-tuning post there, a flashy agent demo somewhere else. The pieces rarely line up. You ship a chatbot but can't explain its loss curve. You hook a function to an agent but can't say what attention does inside the model that's calling it.
This curriculum is the spine. 20 phases, 503 lessons, four languages: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Julia. Linear algebra at one end, autonomous swarms at the other. Every algorithm gets built from raw math first. Backprop. Tokenizer. Attention. Agent loop. By the time PyTorch shows up, you already know what it's doing under the hood.
Each lesson runs the same loop: read the problem, derive the math, write the code, run the test, keep the artifact. No five-minute videos, no copy-paste deploys, no hand-holding. Free, open source, and built to run on your own laptop.
Prepare by building the real systems
Four Claude certification paths taught the same way as the course: step by step, with interactive labs, practical artifacts, and an AI tutor that works from the GitHub repo.
Not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or authorized by Anthropic. This curriculum does not issue credentials or guarantee a passing result.
The Codeology academy is on GitHub. Clone it, fork it, and learn at your own pace with no paywall or signup. The featured AI Engineering pathway remains free, attributed, and available from its original source.
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