LessonFolk

LessonFolk is an open-source project that teaches AI to anyone, from complete beginners to advanced practitioners, through a conversation with an AI tutor. Courses written by the project's maintainers are credited to LessonFolk.

Courses by LessonFolk

AI Foundations
By LessonFolk
Theme: Understanding AILevel: Beginner
Start from zero. What AI is, how machines learn, and what is really happening when you chat with an AI.
About 1 hour 3 lessons
Prompting Basics
By LessonFolk
Theme: Using AI toolsLevel: Beginner
Write clear requests and get reliably good answers from a chat assistant — context, examples, format, and how to fix an answer that missed.
About 1.5 hours 5 lessons
Using AI Safely and Wisely
By LessonFolk
Theme: AI and societyLevel: Beginner
Use AI with your eyes open — why it can be confidently wrong, how to check answers, what to keep private, where bias comes from, and how to use AI-made content honestly.
About 1.5 hours 5 lessons
AI for Everyday Work
By LessonFolk
Theme: Using AI toolsLevel: Beginner
Turn AI into everyday habits — summarise and draft, research and learn, work with documents, brainstorm, save time on repetitive tasks and build a routine that suits you. No code needed.
About 2 hours 6 lessons
AI Coding Assistants in Practice
By LessonFolk
Theme: Using AI toolsLevel: Intermediate
Work with AI coding assistants like a senior developer — know what they see, split work into tasks they handle well, review their code, protect your secrets, and keep tests and git as your safety net. The course works with any tool.
About 2 hours 6 lessons
Debugging with AI
By LessonFolk
Theme: Using AI toolsLevel: Intermediate
Turn your AI assistant into a debugging partner, not a guessing machine — give it the right evidence, read errors together, test ranked hypotheses, fix the root cause instead of the symptom and prove the fix works. Works with any language and any tool.
About 2 hours 6 lessons
AI Coding Assistants for Teams: Rules, Skills and Plugins
By LessonFolk
Theme: Using AI toolsLevel: Intermediate
Set up your coding assistant for a whole team — write an AGENTS.md it follows, scope and share rules, package workflows as commands, skills and plugins, and add guardrails with permissions and hooks. Taught with the tool you use, with equivalents in the other major tools.
About 2 hours 6 lessons
Build with AI: Your First AI App
By LessonFolk
Theme: Building with AILevel: Intermediate
Go from using AI to building with it — call a model from Python, shape its behaviour, get structured output, manage conversations and ship a small chatbot, all with free tools.
About 2.5 hours 7 lessons
AI Agents and Tools
By LessonFolk
Theme: Building with AILevel: Intermediate
A clear mental model of AI agents, without the hype — let a model call your functions, run an agent loop, answer from your own documents, and keep it safe with guardrails and human oversight.
About 2 hours 6 lessons