Part Two

Coding and Building Systems

— Build your own site with AI, and publish it to the world —

From user to maker. Build a real website without writing a single line of code yourself, then ship it to the world with GitHub and Vercel. 13 chapters in all.

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CONTENTS

Contents

Introduction

  1. 00 Before you begin — about this guide — Build your own site with AI, and publish it to the world —

Part 1 | Foundations — From user to maker

  1. 01 Chapter 1. Why a therapist steps over to the making side We now live in an age where "build me a café website" produces something that runs
  2. 02 Chapter 2. Choosing your new partner: the AI development tool There are several AI development tools, but the thinking is the same whichever you pick
  3. 03 Chapter 3. Preparing to build safely — narrowing the keys you hand over Give the AI the key to the working folder only, never the key to the whole house

Part 2 | Practice — Building a profile page

  1. 04 Chapter 4. How to instruct AI, and how to get past errors The three elements of a good instruction: what, what features and content, what it should look like
  2. 05 Chapter 5. Workshop: building a profile page Bring everything to bear: folder, rules, prompt, error handling

Part 3 | Publishing — Out into the world

  1. 06 Chapter 6. GitHub — putting what you built in the cloud GitHub is a service for storing the code you wrote on the internet
  2. 07 Chapter 7. What deploying means — local and public Deploying = putting what is on your computer somewhere the world can reach
  3. 08 Chapter 8. Publishing to the world with Vercel Vercel connects to GitHub and deploys in a few clicks

Part 4 | Going further — A full website, and the map beyond

  1. 09 Chapter 9. Growing a profile page into a website A website sits on the extension of a profile page
  2. 10 Chapter 10. Front end and back end — the dining room and the kitchen Everything built so far is the front end — the dining room
  3. 11 Chapter 11. The map ahead — what makes a difference at work What you learned here is the foundation, and it applies very widely

Closing Chapter | To the therapist who can build

  1. Closing Chapter | To the therapist who can build At the start of this guide I wrote:

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