Learning
Evening courses
Practical, instructor-led programs on Thursday nights (7:30–9:30 PM Pacific). Each course runs three weeks, repeats on a rolling schedule, and is built around teaching—not slides and hype.
Classes are live on Zoom: you join a real-time session each week, camera on by default so instructors can read the room, run exercises, and give feedback. Have a conflict or accessibility need? Note it in your enrollment—we will work with you.
Programming foundations
Read and write code with confidence—structures, logic, and patterns that transfer to any language.
Learning to think like a programmer—breaking problems into steps, tracing logic, and debugging when something breaks—gives you a grounded feel for how software actually behaves. That habit of mind carries straight into AI: you read model outputs, prompts, and guardrails with sharper judgment instead of treating them as magic.
VPS servers are supplied for the cohort so everyone gets a consistent place to build, run, and deploy exercises—no guessing about hosting.
- How programs are structured and executed
- Variables, control flow, functions, and debugging mindset
- Working with small projects end to end
- Why learning to code matters for automation and agents
Production AI & context engineering
How models use tokens, what inference costs, and how to run AI safely at scale.
Tokens and AI models are supplied for labs and assignments—you work with real inference and context, not theory alone.
- AI systems in real workflows
- Tokens, context windows, and inference economics
- Context management and durable prompts
- Development at scale: guardrails, review, and operations
Unix, shell & the OS
Command line, Bash, and how your operating system fits together.
Servers, SSH access, and systems are supplied for hands-on labs—you practice on real hosts, not a single shared demo machine only.
- Introduction to the shell and Bash
- Files, permissions, processes, and paths
- Unix-style systems and everyday operator tasks
- Tying the CLI to servers, scripts, and modern tooling
Certificates & classroom
Participants who complete a three-week course receive a certificate of completion from Swift Media. We cap enrollment at 30 students per course so instructors can answer questions and review work properly.
Enroll
Request a seat in the next cohort. Submissions go to our team in Swift Chat (same pipeline as the main site contact form). We will confirm schedule, payment, and Zoom details by email.
Live on Zoom
- Real-time Thursday sessions (7:30–9:30 PM PT)
- Camera on during class unless you have arranged otherwise
- Stable internet and a quiet space help everyone learn