IT 390 (LLM Basics)

Spring 2026

Craig Miller

Weekly Notes

Instructor

Craig Miller
Office: 745 CDM Building, 312-362-5085
Email: craig.miller@depaul.edu
Web page: http://facsrv.cdm.depaul.edu/~cmiller
Office Hours: Announced on Web page

Course Meetings

Tuesday and Thursday 1:30 to 3:00
206 CDM Building (243 S Wabash Ave)
Loop Campus

Prerequisites

IT 212, CSC 242, CSC 243, or similar programming experience

Course References

This course does not have a required text. However, the course structure and topics are loosely based on Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka (ISBN-10: 1633437167). An online version is freely accessible to DePaul students: https://go.oreilly.com/depaul-university/library/view/build-a-large/9781633437166/