microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners

microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners

Description: 21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

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21 Lessons teaching everything you need to know to start building Generative AI applications


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> Prefer to Clone Locally? > > This repository includes 50+ language translations which significantly increases the download size. To clone without translations, use sparse checkout: > > Bash / macOS / Linux: > ``bash > git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners.git > cd generative-ai-for-beginners > git sparse-checkout set --no-cone '/*' '!translations' '!translated_images' > > > **CMD (Windows):** > cmd > git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners.git > cd generative-ai-for-beginners > git sparse-checkout set --no-cone "/*" "!translations" "!translated_images" > `` > > This gives you everything you need to complete the course with a much faster download.

Generative AI for Beginners (Version 3) - A Course

Learn the fundamentals of building Generative AI applications with our 21-lesson comprehensive course by Microsoft Cloud Advocates.

🌱 Getting Started

This course has 21 lessons. Each lesson covers its own topic so start wherever you like!

Lessons are labeled either "Learn" lessons explaining a Generative AI concept or "Build" lessons that explain a concept and code examples in both Python and TypeScript when possible.

For .NET Developers checkout Generative AI for Beginners (.NET Edition)!

Each lesson also includes a "Keep Learning" section with additional learning tools.

What You Need

To run the code of this course, you can use either:

• Azure OpenAI Service - Lessons: "aoai-assignment"
• GitHub Marketplace Model Catalog - Lessons: "githubmodels"
• OpenAI API - Lessons: "oai-assignment"

• Basic knowledge of Python or TypeScript is helpful - \*For absolute beginners check out these Python and TypeScript courses
• A GitHub account to fork this entire repo to your own GitHub account

We have created a [Course Setup](./00-course-setup/README.md?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) lesson to help you with setting up your development environment.

Don't forget to star (🌟) this repo to find it easier later.

🧠 Ready to Deploy?

If you are looking for more advanced code samples, check out our collection of Generative AI Code Samples in both Python and TypeScript.

🗣️ Meet Other Learners, Get Support

Join our official Azure AI Foundry Discord server to meet and network with other learners taking this course and get support.

Ask questions or share product feedback in our Azure AI Foundry Developer Forum...