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Vanderbilt University

Build Anything with AI — No Code Required

Vanderbilt University via Coursera

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What if you had a computer science PhD sitting next to you — one who could instantly turn your ideas into working software, sharp analysis, and beautiful visuals? You do. Modern AI tools like Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, and MAJK can act as your personal expert in computing, realizing your thoughts and goals on your computer without you writing a single line of code. Here's the truth: the personal computer was never very personal. For fifty years, "using a computer" meant bending yourself around commodity software that never quite fit the way you work. That era is over. This is personalized computing — where the computing works the way you want, because you describe what you want and AI makes it real. This course teaches you the patterns for building with AI: the fundamental mental models and ways of interacting with AI that let you build anything you want without knowing how to code. You'll learn the architecture of how to communicate with AI to produce high-quality work — how to describe what you want, how to check the AI's work so you can trust it, and how to think through problems in computing the way a builder does, even if you're not a computer scientist. Most AI courses teach you tricks for specific tools. This one teaches you the building blocks that underlie all of them — the patterns behind every AI tool, today's and tomorrow's. Once you know these patterns, you can compose them: combining simple building blocks into solutions you never thought possible without a team of software engineers and data scientists working for you. And you'll prove it by building bold, genuinely cool things — custom to you, from your real digital life: - Unleash your AI on a chaotic folder of files and watch it reorganize everything into clean, logical order - Transform messy data into a stunning interactive dashboard your colleagues will ask you how you made - Turn your photos into a living, interactive experience that sees them through AI's eyes - Feed in a folder of credit card statements and get a forensic deep-dive on your spending — surfacing forgotten subscriptions and hidden savings - Build your own personal situation room: a command center that takes in your files, meeting reports, notes, and to-dos, discovers hidden insights, and draws your attention to what matters most By the end, you'll know what's possible, how to ask for it, and how to verify you got it. Computing that fits you, built by you. If you can describe it, you can build it.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Building with AI
  • Scaling Your Impact & Problem Solving with AI
  • CODER
  • Expectations & Experience- Iterating with Your AI PhD
  • CODER II
  • Wrapping Up & Capstone

Taught by

Dr. Jules White

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