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Every season becomes a course. Every course is free.
Watch the animated season, then go deeper here: free workbooks (PDF) for every episode, full written lessons with copy-ready code — JavaScript, prompt and context engineering, databases and graphs, agentic AI — and Discord support the whole way through. No enrollment, no cost, no catch.
movie New · Animated course · 6 episodes · free
The Curve
Most of the class is failing discrete math. A free animated course that teaches proofs picture-first — with homework and an answer key.
movie New · Animated course · 6 episodes · free
Search Party
Which Jesus is real? A free animated comedy about faith, AI and finding your path — watch it, then grab the free study guide.
movie New · Animated course · 6 episodes · free
The Context Window
Prompting, Context, Memory & Graphs — how to think with AI. Watch the season, then grab the free course workbook.
route Many Ways In
There's no single right way to start.
Self-taught builder or working professional — these four courses stand on their own, no matter why you're here.
Know some code?
Start with Prompt and Context Engineering.
Ready for systems?
Move on to Relational Databases and Graphs.
Ready for real problems?
Finish with Civics and Agentic AI.
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Open a course to see its lessons in order. New courses show up here as they ship.
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code How Nate and Kai Started Bot That Lyfe
Intro to JavaScript for Beginners
Follow Nate and Kai — one self-taught builder, one civic-tech idea with nowhere to go — from a meetup back room to their first working JavaScript. Six chapters. Real code, real diagrams, real banter, no fluff.
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psychology Nate and Kai Learn to Talk to the Machine
Prompt and Context Engineering
Hand-coding everything doesn't scale for two people building a studio. Nate and Kai start directing an AI agent and both get burned in different ways, until they learn that prompting and context are real skills, not just typing a question.
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database Nate and Kai Build the System of Record
Relational Databases and Graphs
Contacts, ideas, and feedback from every meetup are scattered across notes and memory. Nate and Kai build a real database to track them: tables, SQL, and a graph model for when the relationships get too tangled for rows and columns.
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account_balance Nate and Kai Take Their First Real Ask
Civics and Agentic AI
Prompting, context, and data — the studio has the skills now. This pack turns them outward: reading a real RFP, researching the organization behind it, and sketching a real system for the exact civic problem that started it all.
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It's open all day, every day: setup and concept help for anyone working through the courses, and a place to talk through a system you're designing or stuck on, whether it's from a course or an idea of your own.