Let's get you set up.

GitHub stores all your code and is how you submit every homework. This is the most important one.

Pick a professional username — it becomes part of your portfolio URL.

For calling GPT models from your code later in the course.

For calling Claude models — you'll compare providers.

For open models, datasets, and the free Agents/MCP courses.

The language the whole course is written in.

On Windows, tick 'Add Python to PATH' during install. Verify with:

python3 --version

Your code editor. Then install the 'Python' extension inside it.

The tool that pushes your code to GitHub.

Verify with:

git --version

Creates fast, clean Python environments so packages don't clash.

macOS / Linux — paste into your terminal:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Your commits are signed with this name and email (use your GitHub email).

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "you@email.com"

It contains every day's code file with TODO markers — you complete these as your homework. Unzipped, this becomes your 'ai60' folder.

Unzip it — you'll get an 'ai60' folder with all the starter files inside.

This public repo is your portfolio and your homework trail — instructors review your pushes here.

Name it exactly ai60, set it to Public, and do NOT add a README (you already have files). Click Create.

Connects your local 'ai60' folder to your new GitHub repo. Replace YOUR-USERNAME with your GitHub username.

cd ai60
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Day 0: setup"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/ai60.git
git push -u origin main