IT 390 (LLM Basics)
Spring 2026
Craig Miller
Weekly Notes
- Week 1
Week 1 Outline
- Learning activity: rate difficulty of sample course descriptions (paper handouts)
- Course overview and policies
- Review example ML program on course descriptions
- Overview of microGPT
- Summaries due this weekend --- possibilities:
- Your experience coding course difficulty
- Your experiences running program on learning difficulty
- Goals for the course
- Complete cards for attendance
- AI Overview (Thursday)
- LLM Concepts
- Course analysis program revisited (version with difficulty ratings sheet)