Full syllabus

The complete curriculum

11 modules · 59 lessons · 14h 11m of video

00

Welcome to the AI Universe

Your mission briefing: what AI is, the tools you'll master, and the rules of the road.

0.1

What AI Is & The Tools You'll Master

What AI actually is and isn't, meet ChatGPT, Codex, and Higgsfield, and start thinking like a builder instead of just a user.

0.2

Setup, Safety & The Golden Rule

Stand up all three accounts safely with parent sign-off, pick the right plan tier, and learn the ethics that govern everything you'll build.

01

ChatGPT Mastery

Prompt like a pro, build custom GPTs, and ship your first two AI projects.

1.1

Prompting Fundamentals

The anatomy of a great prompt — role, task, context, format — and how personas change everything.

1.2

Prompt Patterns & Persistent Memory

Zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought patterns, plus making ChatGPT remember context across sessions.

1.3

Build Your First Custom GPT + Voice Mode

Ship a working custom GPT with a name, personality, and knowledge files — then go hands-free with Voice Mode.

1.4

Canvas, Files & Multimodal Input

Draft and revise in Canvas, and feed ChatGPT files, images, and PDFs to extract, summarize, and quiz from anything.

1.5

PROJECT: The Dungeon Master GPT

Project

Ship a complete Dungeon Master custom GPT with dice rolls, a campaign setting, NPCs, and combat rules — playable tonight.

1.6

PROJECT: Your AI Best Friend

Project

Design a companion GPT with a documented persona file — and have the honest conversation about where AI companions help and where they hurt.

02

Image Generation with Higgsfield

Direct light, lens, and style like a cinematographer — then ship trading cards, comics, and character art.

2.1

Welcome to Higgsfield + Model Picker

Tour the dashboard, ship your first generation, and learn to pick the right model in under three seconds.

2.2

Pro Prompting: Style, Light, Composition & Formats

Direct control of light, lens, and framing with real cinematography vocabulary — and one hero idea shipped in three platform-specific formats.

2.3

Soul Characters: Train Yourself

Train a personal Soul Character and use it consistently across three different scenes.

2.4

Reference Elements + PROJECT: Minecraft Skin Art

Project

Combine saved Reference Elements into one coherent scene, then apply it immediately to ship Minecraft skin promo art starring your Soul Character.

2.5

PROJECT: Pokémon-Style Trading Cards

Project

Design and render a 6-card starter set with a unified visual style and consistent frame design.

2.6

PROJECT: Comic Panel + Album Cover

Project

Tell a micro-story in four comic panels, then design a Spotify-grade album cover with intentional type treatment.

2.7

PROJECT: You as a Video Game Character

Project

Render five genre-style versions of your Soul Character and assemble one printable character sheet.

03

Video Generation with Higgsfield

From still frames to a 60-second music video — learn motion, presets, and the edit.

3.1

How AI Video Works + Model Picker

How AI video is generated, why it glitches, and how to pick between Seedance, Kling, and Cinema Studio.

3.2

Image-to-Video & Camera Moves

Animate a still into a five-second clip and control the AI camera with real cinematography vocabulary.

3.3

Presets + Soul Characters in Video

When one-click presets beat custom prompts, and how to keep your Soul character consistent across a three-clip sequence.

3.4

PROJECT: Animate Your Trading Cards

Project

Ship a 15-second card reveal video — flip, creature emerges, action shot — complete with sound design.

3.5

PROJECT: Fake Movie Trailer

Project

Ship a 30-second trailer with six to eight generated shots, voiceover, score, and a title card.

3.6

PROJECT: AI Music Video

Project

Ship a 60-second music video synced to an original AI-generated song with beat-matched cuts.

3.7

Motion Transfer + Editing in CapCut

Motion-transfer a trending dance onto your Soul character, then edit a polished short from five-plus AI clips in CapCut.

04

Content Creator Track

Avatars, Shorts, faceless channels, and a highlights pipeline — creator skills end to end.

4.1

Marketing Studio + Your AI Avatar

Tour Marketing Studio's four panels, ship a preset video, and build a reusable AI avatar tested with three scripts.

4.2

PROJECT: YouTube Short Start to Finish

Project

Ship one 45-second YouTube Short end-to-end using ChatGPT, Higgsfield, and CapCut.

4.3

PROJECT: Faceless Channel + Thumbnails That Get Clicks

Project

Pick a niche, design a repeatable faceless format, ship three episodes, and pick a thumbnail with a real A/B test.

4.4

Personal Clipper + PROJECT: Stream Highlights Reel

Project

Convert long-form video into post-ready vertical shorts, and turn a stream recording into a recurring Best Moments series.

05

Coding with OpenAI Codex

Read code without panicking, debug by conversation, and deploy real apps to real URLs.

5.1

What Codex Is + Setup

Watch Codex build something real end-to-end, then set up your workspace and ship a hello-world site to a live URL.

5.2

Reading Code + Your First Real Website

Annotate code line-by-line in plain English using Codex as the explainer, then ship a real portfolio website to a public URL.

5.3

The Debug-by-Conversation Loop

Master the loop every builder uses daily: describe what you saw, paste the error, ask Codex to fix it.

5.4

PROJECT: Meme Generator

Project

Ship a live meme generator with image upload, text overlay, and download — plus one custom feature you invent.

5.5

PROJECT: "What's For Dinner" Wheel

Project

Ship a spinning wheel app that remembers user-added options — deployed and actually used in your house.

5.6

PROJECT: Personal AI Image Wall

Project

Ship a personal AI image generator calling the Higgsfield API from a Codex-built web app, with a parent supervising the API key.

06

Game Creation

Six playable games — from a Flappy Bird clone starring you to a real-time multiplayer arena.

6.1

Game Design Fundamentals + Browser Game Template

The four ingredients of fun, reverse-engineered from a game you love — then build the reusable HTML canvas template all your games will start from.

6.2

PROJECT: Flappy Bird Clone Starring You

Project

A playable Flappy Bird clone with your Soul Character as the bird — gravity physics and collision detection included.

6.3

PROJECT: Text Adventure with ChatGPT as Narrator

Project

A browser text adventure that calls the OpenAI API live from JavaScript with a narrator system prompt.

6.4

PROJECT: 2D Platformer with Higgsfield Sprites

Project

A three-level side-scrolling platformer using a Higgsfield-generated sprite sheet with idle, walk, and jump states.

6.5

PROJECT: Pokémon-Style Battle Game

Project

A turn-based 1v1 battle game using your two Module 02 trading card creatures — HP bars and type effectiveness.

6.6

PROJECT: Trivia Game About Your Favorite Topic

Project

A quiz-show trivia game with 50+ ChatGPT-generated questions, a 15-second timer, and scoring.

6.7

PROJECT: Multiplayer Game You Can Share

Project

A real-time 2-player arena/tag game playable on two different devices using a hosted realtime backend.

07

Apps, Sites & Bots

APIs 101, then five shipped apps: a Discord bot, a tutor, a stat tracker, and more.

7.1

Connecting ChatGPT to Anything (APIs 101)

What an API is, what a key does, and your first real API call from a script.

7.2

PROJECT: Discord Bot That Chats Like Your Character

Project

A working Discord bot that replies in your Module 01 character's voice via slash commands.

7.3

PROJECT: Personal AI Tutor

Project

A web app that takes subject, grade level, and the question you're stuck on — and tutors you through it.

7.4

PROJECT: Fantasy Sports Stat Tracker

Project

A weekly start/sit recommendation engine combining a public sports API with ChatGPT analysis.

7.5

PROJECT: AI Fortune Teller

Project

A polished fortune-teller app pairing AI text with a matching Higgsfield image per answer — with shareable results.

7.6

PROJECT: Custom Emoji & Sticker Generator

Project

A sticker pack generator: one vibe in, a 4-pack of transparent PNGs out — auto-resized for Discord and iMessage.

08

Workflow Automation

Trigger → action → result. Build pipelines that run your life while you sleep.

8.1

Automation 101 + ChatGPT Actions & Tools

The trigger → action → result model, spotting automatable tasks, and building a GPT that calls a real weather API.

8.2

Connecting Drive, Gmail & Discord

Connect a GPT to Google Drive via OAuth, read and summarize a folder, and understand permissions and scopes.

8.3

PROJECT: Auto-Post Your Higgsfield Art

Project

A pipeline that watches a Drive folder, captions new images with ChatGPT, and posts to Instagram/X automatically.

8.4

PROJECT: AI Homework Reminder Bot

Project

A scheduled bot that reads a syllabus or Classroom feed, generates an evening checklist, and DMs it daily.

8.5

PROJECT: Two Daily Pipelines (News Digest + Daily Image)

Project

Two scheduled pipelines: a 7am anime/gaming news digest in your voice, and a daily themed Higgsfield image archived to Drive.

09

AI Agents

Goal, plan, tools, memory — build agents that research, plan, and create on your behalf.

9.1

What Agents Are + Agent Mode Walkthrough

The four ingredients of an agent and a real task run in ChatGPT Agent Mode with guardrails you set.

9.2

Giving Agents Tools & Memory

Upgrade a Custom GPT into an agent by wiring it to files, actions, and persistent memory.

9.3

PROJECT: The Researcher Agent

Project

An agent that takes a topic and returns a one-page brief with cited sources.

9.4

PROJECT: The Week Planner Agent

Project

An agent that ingests your calendar, homework, and goals, produces a weekly plan, and re-plans when things change.

9.5

PROJECT: The YouTube Comments Agent

Project

An agent that triages new YouTube comments and drafts on-brand replies for human approval — never auto-reply.

9.6

CAPSTONE WORKFLOW: ChatGPT + Codex + Higgsfield Combined

Project

Chain all three tools into one agent workflow: story idea → think → build → illustrate.

10

Going Public

GitHub, copyright, honest selling — and the capstone you'll present to the world.

10.1

GitHub + Sharing Your Work Safely

Publish your top three projects to a public GitHub profile with great READMEs and zero leaked secrets — plus a parent-led privacy audit.

10.2

Copyright, Credit & Your First Little Business

The three honest rules of selling AI-assisted work, and a one-page business plan for a sellable project.

10.3

CAPSTONE: Ship One Thing You're Proud Of

Project

Pick one project from anywhere in the course, polish it to public quality, record a 5-minute demo, and present it.

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