Module 2: AI for Application Building (5 - 9 October 2026)

[Slide Deck] A Quick Guide to Prompt Engineering

A practical introduction to prompt engineering, covering how to structure clear instructions, provide useful context, apply constraints, and iteratively refine prompts to improve AI-generated outputs.

[Slide Deck] AI Model Deployment as APIs or lightweight apps

A practical guide to deploying trained AI models either as shared APIs or lightweight user-facing applications, including considerations for architecture, access control, scalability, monitoring, cost, and choosing the right deployment approach for a given use case.

Integrating LLMs into Your Applications: Hands-on Notebook 

An introduction to agentic AI and how locally controlled AI systems can be designed to support practical applications in startups, research, and community settings.

[Slide Deck] AI Prototyping Tools

An introduction to AI-assisted software prototyping, showing how natural-language instructions can be used to turn an idea into a functional application without starting from traditional code-first development.