Course Outline: Chapter 1 - 9

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Course Outline

Week 1

• Chapter 1 (Mon 8/11/2025): Chapter 1: Local LLM Environment - Poetry, Docker & 4 Models #9
• Chapter 2 (Wed 8/13/2025): Chapter 2: FastAPI Gateway - Your OpenAI-Compatible Server #10
• Chapter 3 (Fri 8/15/2025): Chapter 3: SSE Streaming - Real-Time Chat Responses #11

Week 1 Conclusion: Chat with multiple local models through a unified API gateway - streaming for interactive use or completions for programmatic processing.

Weekend Exploration: Try the same prompts across all 4 models.

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Week 2

• Chapter 4 (Mon 8/18/2025): Chapter 4: Tool-Calling Toolkit - Structured LLM Interactions #13
• Chapter 5 (Wed 8/20/2025): Chapter 5: Response Synthesis - Natural Language from Tool Results #14
• Chapter 6 (Fri 8/22/2025): Chapter 6: Backend Retrospective - Preparing for Frontend Integration #15

Week 2 Conclusion: Explore tool calling and synthesis - streaming to watch the model think or completions for reliable automation.

Weekend Exploration: Build your own tools and see how different models handle the same tool differently (or don't!)

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Week 3

• Chapter 7 (Mon 8/25/2025): Chapter 7: React SPA Foundation - TypeScript, Vite & shadcn #16
• Chapter 8 (Wed 8/27/2025): Chapter 8: State Management - Capturing LLM Interactions with Zustand #17
• Chapter 9 (Fri 8/29/2025): Chapter 9: Interactive UI - Visualizing Model Responses #18

Week 3 Conclusion: You have a full-stack tool-calling application running locally.

Weekend Exploration: Every layer - frontend, backend, and models - is yours to modify and explore.