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From Idea to App: Building Real Applications with AI

Learn to plan, build, test, and launch web applications using AI coding assistants.

Beginner11 lessons1h 45m totalBy Stackwise Studio

About this course

Learn to plan, build, test, and launch web applications using AI coding assistants. Develop the technical understanding needed to guide AI, evaluate its output, solve problems, and maintain your applications after launch. The course follows a complete product development process, from identifying a useful problem to deploying an application with authentication, persistent data, permissions, and external integrations. Instruction focuses on transferable skills. Tool demonstrations are provided as separate lessons that can be updated as platforms evolve.

What you will learn

  • What “vibe coding” means.
  • Examples of applications you can build throughout the course.
  • How AI turns instructions into code.
  • Your responsibilities: defining the goal, making decisions, and checking results.
  • Why an attractive interface does not prove that an application works.
  • The workflow: define, build, inspect, test, and improve.
  • Breaking a large idea into small tasks.
  • Giving each task a clear completion condition.
  • Reviewing results before requesting the next feature.
  • Recognizing when a change has introduced a problem.
  • The instruction panel.
  • The application preview.

Lessons

  1. 1What Can You Build with AI?10 min
  2. 2The Development Loop9 min
  3. 3Getting to Know Your AI Coding Workspace11 min
  4. 4Writing Your First Build Request10 min
  5. 5Build Your First Interactive Page11 min
  6. 6Review and Improve the Result7 min
  7. 7Understanding What You Built7 min
  8. 8What Happens When You Open a Website?10 min
  9. 9HTML, CSS, and JavaScript10 min
  10. 10Frontend and Backend11 min
  11. 11Temporary State and Persistent Data10 min