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Guides & Tutorials

Slide decks, written guides, and workshop materials produced by the CUNY AI Lab.

AI-Assisted Development Guide

A step-by-step written tutorial on building digital projects with AI coding assistants. Covers environment setup, prompting strategies, and project workflows for beginners.

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Workshop Slide Decks

Slides from our workshop series, available for independent review or reuse.

Vibe Coding Workshop Series

Part 1

Foundations: AI, Command Line, and Version Control

Core concepts for AI-assisted development, including environment setup, terminal basics, and Git workflows.

Part 2

Vibe-Coding Prototypes

Building prototypes with AI coding assistants, including prompting strategies, project design, and troubleshooting.

Setup

CAIL Pi

Install Pi, the terminal coding agent used in the workshops, and connect it to CUNY AI Lab models in one command.

Sandbox Workshops

Workspace Foundations Series

Part 1
System Prompting

How to craft effective system prompts to shape AI behavior for classroom use cases and custom assistants.

Part 2
Knowledge Collections

Building and managing knowledge collections to ground AI responses in course materials and curated sources.

Part 3
Skills and Tools

Customizing agentic tools and skills to extend AI assistant capabilities for specialized classroom workflows.

Individual Workshops

Creative Coding

An introduction to creative coding with AI, exploring generative art and creative applications of programming.

Critical Play

A workshop on critical approaches to AI through play, experimentation, and hands-on exploration.