Learn how AI actually works, starting from zero.
No coding, no experience, nothing to install. Four free levels take you from what AI is to training a real model yourself.
- No code to begin
- Nothing to install
- Any age
- Free
Level 3 builds programs from blocks. Level 4 shows the Python they become.
Why this exists
Everyone uses AI now. Almost nobody is taught how it works.
AI literacy is becoming the new reading and writing, and most people are being left out of it.
AI is already everywhere.
It already makes calls about your writing, your job and your grades.
- Drafts essays
- Screens job applications
- Answers your searches
- Grades homework
But almost nobody is taught how it works.
Most people who use it every day could not answer these. The explanations out there assume you already code, or hand you slogans.
- What is a model?
- How was it trained?
- Why does it get things wrong?
So a divide opens.
A few can judge what AI tells them.
Everyone else can only take its word for it.
What we do
Anyone can learn how AI works.
So we teach it to anyone.
AI literacy for every person, not a specialty for people who already program.
The real ideas
How models are trained, where error comes from, and how to test them, with no programming language standing in front.
Blocks, not syntax
Every program is blocks you drag into place, and a block cannot have a typo. A twelve year old and a retired teacher build the same model in the same afternoon.
Then real Python
Level 4 shows the Python those blocks become, for anyone who wants to keep going.
Blocks are the whole trick.
No syntax to learn before the ideas, so nobody is turned away at the door. If you can read this, you can become AI literate here.
Four levels, taken in order.
Each one adds a single new idea. Level 4 ends with a model you trained.
- Level 1
How AI works, and how to use it
Use one properly in the first ten minutes, then find out what it is doing and where it goes wrong.
AI literacy, zero code≈ 5 hrsOpen Level 1 - Level 2
Train your first model
Build an image classifier from your own photos in half an hour. Spend the rest of the level finding out where it breaks and fixing it.
Training a model, zero code≈ 5 hrsOpen Level 2 - Level 3
Build things with AI
Four working programs, all in one workspace: a text classifier, a webcam recogniser, a language model, and a model that predicts from a table.
Programming and AI with blocks≈ 10 hrsOpen Level 3 - Level 4
Python, and your own handwritten digit classifier
Enough Python to train a model, a digit classifier you built yourself, and the writeup that proves it works.
Python, digit recognition, and neural networks≈ 13 hrsOpen Level 4
Inside each level, the same three steps.
Each module takes you from a new idea to trying it yourself, then checking what you understand.
A ten-minute reading
Plain words, examples before definitions. No videos.
An exercise you do
Sort real examples, tune a line until the error drops, or rewrite a prompt.
A quiz that explains
Every answer tells you why. Retake it any time.
Four rounds, January to April.
One round a month, each covering one level. Play for your school chapter or on your own. Nobody is knocked out before the finals.
How the season works- JANRound 1 covers Level 1
- FEBRound 2 covers Level 2
- MARRound 3 covers Level 3
- APRRound 4 covers Level 4
Round 4, the final, is invitation only.
Start a chapter at your school.
Lead a Code.guide chapter at your school. Curriculum, editor, meeting plans, worksheets, Kahoots, and a league, all made already. All you need is one person who codes.
How to start one- 1ApplyOne short form.
- 2Talk to usA short call.
- 3Meet weeklyOne module a meeting.
Snap the first block into place.
Level 1 is free, with no account needed.