AI Coding Foundations
Build your first widget with AI coding tools
Part of The Summit, a track in Alpine Academy for builders and technical staff.
Program pricing starts from $299 per participant.
Classes are run for teams. Book a call, or send this to your manager.
About this class
You can turn a conversation into working code if you know which tool to use and how to check what it wrote.Work in the terminal with Claude Code, then compare Cursor, Bolt and Lovable.Learn when to reach for each one and how to get clean, working output.
What you'll learn
- 01Build and run a small project from the terminal with Claude Code
- 02Use sessions, slash commands and flags to move faster on the CLI
- 03Navigate Cursor, Bolt and Lovable and note what each does best
- 04Compare the strengths and limits of each tool in a matrix
- 05Write prompts that produce clean, working code
- 06Fix AI output that does not work, and ask again with better instructions
Choose your role
Example: what a Finance learner does in class
- Describe a reconciliation macro in plain English, watch a coding tool write it, then read what it did line by line.
- Paste the error from a broken spreadsheet script back in and judge whether the repair is correct.
Choose your role above to see examples for your own work.
What you'll build
- Tool comparison matrix
- Your CLI setup and custom commands
- Your first AI-built widget
Prerequisites
Time commitment
2 sessions · 2 hours
Available self-paced, in person or live online.
Who teaches it
Live classes are taught by Andrew Phillips or a qualified Alpine coach. Andrew is the founder of Alpine Systems, with twenty years building revenue systems, and builds with AI every day.
You leave The Summit with
- A spec and build plan for your project
- A working SDK integration
- A deployed application
Need sign-off?
Send your manager a short note about this class. It covers the time, what you will build and the price.
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