Meet Your Instructors

Experts in AI, Education, & Engineering

Brandon Middleton is a technologist and educator with deep expertise spanning artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and the Web. He currently serves as Global Head of Education at Replit, where he leads the company’s educational initiatives. Brandon has held previous positions at Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft. Alongside his industry work, Brandon has been a Lecturer at Stanford University since 2019, designing and teaching courses at the intersection of finance, AI, and emerging technology, and concurrently teaches Introduction to Social Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Brian Holt is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft. Before product management, Brian spent a decade as an engineer shipping code at Netflix, Reddit, and LinkedIn. Most recently was a Staff Product Manager at Databricks, focused on developer infrastructure and AI products. He previously led product at Neon (acquired by Databricks), Snowflake/Streamlit, Stripe, and Microsoft Azure—giving him a deep experience across the data and developer tools landscape.

Full-Week Bootcamp -- No coding experience needed!

This 5-day bootcamp, built in partnership by Master.dev and Replit, takes you from excited first-timer to confident AI supervisor: someone who can plan a project, direct an agent, read what it produces, and actually ship. You’ll start by building something real on day one. By day five, you’ll understand why it works and how to fix it when it doesn’t. In just one week, you’ll go from zero experience to building real projects using natural language and the latest AI tools, guided by fundamentals that set you up for long-term success in a fast-moving industry.

What You Will Master

The Senior Engineer Toolkit
  • Ship a real project on day one, built with an AI agent, from scratch.
  • Learn a repeatable planning loop that turns a rough idea into a structured spec your agent can execute.
  • Read and review code confidently, learning enough HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to catch mistakes, understand diffs, and know when to trust what the agent shipped.
  • Build with a professional toolchain: VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Git and GitHub — the same tools developers use every day.
  • Connect your app to the real world: databases, user accounts, third-party APIs, secrets management, and deployment to a live URL.
  • Give your agent superpowers with MCP: let it manage your infrastructure, read production logs, and verify its own work in a browser.
  • Debug like a developer: learn a repeatable methodology for diagnosing what went wrong and directing the agent toward a fix.
  • Walk away with a fully deployed capstone project of your own design and a clear path forward.

Prerequisites

  • No coding experience required!
  • Attendees should be comfortable using software and browser-based editors

Who is this for?

This bootcamp is for non-technical professionals who want to use AI to build real solutions. No coding experience required, just the curiosity and motivation to explore AI-enabled software development.

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The Blueprint

Ship a Real Project on Day One

Full-Week Bootcamp! Build the skills of the future and get ahead. In just one week, you'll go from zero experience to building real projects using natural language and the latest AI tools, guided by fundamentals that set you up for long-term success in a fast-moving industry. No coding experience needed!

Warning: High intensity learning environment.

9:30AM
Welcome & Replit Tour
10:00AM
Your First Prompt
10:30AM
Project Scoping
11:00AM
Personal Project Kickoff
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
Person Project, Continued
3:30PM
Where Agents Hit the Wall
4:00PM
End of day 1
9:30AM
How the Web Works: Reading HTML & CSS
10:30AM
Your Professional Toolchain: VS Code & GitHub Copilot
11:30AM
JavaScript: Values, Logic & Functions
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
JavaScript: Objects, Arrays & the DOM
2:00PM
Git: Save Points for Fearless Building
2:30PM
Lab: Build Mad Libs by Hand
3:30PM
Project Kickoff: Spec & Prompt Tinder for Pets (evening project)
4:00PM
End of Day 2
9:30AM
Talking to Servers: APIs & fetch
10:30AM
Reading TypeScript & React
11:30AM
Tailwind & the Build Step
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
Server-Side Code: Node.js & Express
2:00PM
REST, Secrets & Environment Variables
3:00PM
Lab: Build Your Own API
4:00PM
End of Day 3 (evening projects: Pet Tinder in React & a Weather Dashboard)
9:30AM
Databases: Postgres & Drizzle
10:30AM
Auth: Users, Sessions & Better Auth
11:00AM
Hosting & MCP: Give Your Agent Hands
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
GitHub for Real: Branches & Pull Requests
1:30PM
Lab: Reading a Stranger's Codebase
2:30PM
Debugging: The Loop, the Agent & Preventing Bugs with Tests
3:30PM
Lab: Burn Down the Bug Backlog
4:00PM
End of Day 4 (evening project: Pet Tinder Forever — accounts & a real database)
9:30AM
Analytics & Monitoring: Watching It Run
10:00AM
Capstone: Spec & Milestone Plan
11:00AM
Capstone: Build (with coaching)
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
Capstone: Build, Continued
2:30PM
Ship It: Deploy to a Live URL via the Render MCP
3:30PM
Victory Lap: Where to Go from Here + Q&A
4:00PM
End of Bootcamp
Prefer to attend in-person?
Join us in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Limited seats available.