Micro Courses

Each micro course teaches one subject in a short, focused course. Its page says why Smarter suits the subject, where to look in the code base and the documentation, and suggests exercises. Each also has three complete course plans, for a one-day classroom bootcamp, a two-week online course and a four-week online course, with schedules, graded assignments and rubrics, capstone projects and reading lists. Course Formats and Grading explains what the three formats have in common. They are starting points: pick, combine and adapt the ones that fit your students.

Course	Students	Programming
Prompt Engineering	Anyone	None
Building AI Applications	Anyone	None
AI Governance and Responsible AI	Policy, ethics, law and business	None
The Economics of AI	Business and management	None
Backend Development with Python, Django, Django REST Framework and Pydantic	Software developers	Python
Front End Development with React, Vite.js and Bootstrap	Software developers	JavaScript
Full Stack Development with Django and React	Software developers	Python and JavaScript
API Design and Integration	Software developers	Any language
Writing Secure Software for the Internet	Developers and security students	Some
Docker for Software Development	Developers and operations	Some
Kubernetes for Running Applications at Scale	Platform and operations engineers	Some
Cloud Infrastructure as Code	Cloud and operations engineers	Terraform
Self-Hosting Open Models	Machine learning and operations engineers	Some
Software Quality and Quality Assurance	Software developers	Python or JavaScript
Creating High Quality Documentation with Sphinx	Developers and technical writers	Little
Software Architecture	Advanced developers	Reading
Agentic Software Development with Claude Code	Software developers	Python or JavaScript
Open Source Participation	Anyone, as a capstone	Any