Start here - LLM Basics and Build Your Own Website

Learning

Topic	What to Learn	Resource
Large Language Models (LLMs)	GPT, LLaMA, Mistral; prompt engineering, fine-tuning, LoRA, RAG	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Finetuning	Understanding the differences and when to use which technique	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVWxbHJakgg&t=14s
Vibe coding basics	Use cursor or claude code	Video
Deploy your first website	Deploy your website on vercel	Video
**OPTIONAL:
Machine Learning & Deep Learning Foundations**	Supervised/unsupervised learning, overfitting, gradient descent, CNNs, RNNs, Transformers	Andrew Ng’s ML Specialization (Coursera)

🌐 Project: Build & Deploy Your Own Website

In this project, you’ll design and launch a website from scratch, and deploy it live using Vercel. This will give you hands-on experience with the same process professional developers use to bring real projects online.

🔹 What You’ll Do

Choose Your Project Idea
- A Portfolio Website to showcase your work, skills, and projects.
- Or, something fun and creative, like a “Peggy vs Eevee” mini-game/character battle site or another playful idea of your choice.
Build Your Website
- Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, or a modern framework like Next.js.
- Add styling, interactivity, and polish.
Deploy with Vercel
- Set up a free Vercel account.
- Connect your GitHub repo and deploy your website in just a few clicks.
- Share your live site link with others.

🔹 Deliverables

A live URL hosted on Vercel and share it to the world on Linkedin. Don’t forget to tag Leyuan and BraveCareer, we will repost!
A short write-up (2–3 paragraphs) describing your project idea, build process, and what you learned