Schedule

Week	Date	Day	Class	Topic	Due
1	Aug 31	Mon	#1	Course logistics, AoC with AI
	Sep 2	Wed	#2	Gradient descent (linear regression)Quiz #1Pre-class assessmentLab #0	Quiz #1Pre-class assessmentLab #0
	Sep 3–4	Thu/Fri		Check-in #1
2	Sep 7	Mon		No class (Labor Day)
	Sep 9	Wed	#3	Backpropagation (neural network)Quiz #2Lab #1	Quiz #2Lab #1
	Sep 10–11	Thu/Fri		Check-in #2
3	Sep 14	Mon	#4	Broadcasting (neural network)Quiz #3	Quiz #3
	Sep 16	Wed	#5	TransformersLab #2	Lab #2
	Sep 17–18	Thu/Fri		Check-in #3
4	Sep 21	Mon	#6	TransformersQuiz #4	Quiz #4
	Sep 23	Wed	#7	LLMsLab #3	Lab #3
	Sep 24–25	Thu/Fri		Check-in #4
5	Sep 28	Mon	#8	Agentic AI (harness, tools)Quiz #5	Quiz #5
	Sep 30	Wed	#9	How to Build Full-stack Web ApplicationsLab #4	Lab #4
	Oct 1–2	Thu/Fri		Check-in #5
6	Oct 5	Mon	#10	Backend: Databases, Servers, and APIsQuiz #6	Quiz #6
	Oct 7	Wed	#11	Frontend: HTML, CSS, and JavaScriptLab #5	Lab #5
	Oct 8–9	Thu/Fri		Check-in #6
7	Oct 12	Mon	#12	Containers and DockerQuiz #7	Quiz #7
	Oct 14	Wed	#13	Deploying Your App
	Oct 15–16	Thu/Fri		No check-ins
8	Oct 19	Mon		No class (Fall Break)
	Oct 21	Wed	#14	Rapidly Prototyping with AILab #6	Lab #6
	Oct 22–23	Thu/Fri		Check-in #7
9	Oct 26	Mon	#15	Project Launch - Ideation Session
	Oct 28	Wed	#16	Developer Tools + AI WorkflowLab #7Proposal	Lab #7Proposal
	Oct 29–30	Thu/Fri		Check-in #8
10	Nov 2	Mon	#17	Digital Product Design Crash Course
10	Nov 4	Wed	#18	Prototype Presentations
11	Nov 9	Mon	#19	Prototype Presentations
11	Nov 11	Wed	#20	Impact
12	Nov 16	Mon	#21	Design Reviews
12	Nov 18	Wed	#22	Design Reviews
13	Nov 23	Mon	#23	Guest Lecture (Zoom)
13	Nov 25	Wed		No class (Thanksgiving)
14	Nov 30	Mon	#24	Presentations
14	Dec 2	Wed	#25	Presentations
15	Dec 7	Mon	#26	Presentations
15	Dec 9	Wed	#27	Demo Day