In this Github-based course provided by Microsoft, you'll learn how to build GenAI application using JavaScript.

Microsoft's has produced a stream of AI tutorials the likes of "AI Agents for Beginners" , "Copilot Adventures" or "Generative AI for Beginners", which we've already covered on I Programmer.

This new offering can be considered as a continuation of the mostly general "Generative AI for Beginners", but dedicated to JavaScript. It also borrows the narrative style of exploration from the "Copilot Adventures" course, wrapped up as a time-traveling adventure. The way it works is that you pick a task, or a so-called adventure and you then proceed to writing the code to complete the task.

Hence you'll embark on a thrilling adventure, traveling back in time to collaborate with some of history's greatest minds. Together, you'll tackle challenges and explore how Generative AI can revolutionize your JavaScript applications.

Each lesson includes:

• A written lesson with an assignment and quiz
• A short video to help further your learning
• Solutions for each assignment and quiz

There's also a companion app which you can run locally or on Github Spaces which incorporates historical characters you can
interact with, like Leonardo da Vinci, Ada Lovelace and Montezuma, demonstrating Generative AI applied.

The aim is that during your adventure you'll:

• Understand Generative AI and LLM fundamentals, their applications and limits in JavaScript, and how to use AI to enhance user experiences.
  
  
• Set up your development environment, write a basic app, and understand system prompts.

Along the way, you'll learn:

• Prompt engineering fundamentals, techniques, and meta-prompts for better AI outcomes.
  
  
• Structured output, how to extract data from prompts, and present it in various formats, such as JSON, for easier consumption.
  
  
• The basics of RAG, how to integrate external data, and how to leverage it for more relevant, accurate AI responses.
  
  
• How to give your LLM extra capabilities, bring your own functions
  
  
• How to get started with MCP to standardize how to expose prompts, resources and tools
  
  
• How to improve your MCP app by improving clients with LLM and more

Best of all is that you apply all those concepts to practice using Javascript and its library for OpenAI. The repository while self-contained as it includes text, video and code, for those
wanting more suggests further resources to explore:

• Speed up your AI development with LangChain.js
• Run AI models on your local machine with Ollama
• Building Generative AI Apps with Azure Cosmos DB

All in all this is a great course to get your feet wet in the, applied, GenAI world. 

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