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Applied AI for Software Professionals

Understand AI, evaluate AI systems, and work with AI — hands-on, in your browser.

A hands-on course on how modern AI actually works — LLMs, context, RAG, agents — and how to evaluate and work with it in real engineering and testing. You build and run real browser labs, complete a graded capstone, and earn a verifiable certificate. Learning by doing, not slides you watch.

Enroll now — €349One-time · no subscription · lifetime access

Price includes VAT where applicable · 14-day right of withdrawal · Sold by Star IT.

Who it's for

Is this you?

  • Software engineers, QA and test engineers, and technical leads
  • Anyone who ships or tests software and wants to use AI with judgment, not hype
  • People who learn by doing — writing, running, and breaking things
Before you start

What you'll need

  • · No formal prerequisite — but general software-development-lifecycle familiarity is assumed
  • · Comfort reading a little code (any language) and basic testing concepts
  • · No prior AI or machine-learning experience needed — we build it from the ground up
What you'll be able to do

By the end, you can…

1Explain how LLMs really work — tokens, context, RAG, agents — and exactly where they break
2Design and run an evaluation for an AI feature (the discipline teams call “evals”)
3Use AI for real engineering and testing work — and catch it when it's confidently wrong
4Defend a quality decision about an AI system the way a professional would
The curriculum

What you'll learn, module by module

00

Orientation

1 part
Welcome & how this works
01

Understand AI Systems

8 parts
What an LLM is What it can and can't do Anatomy of a turn Memory & context assembly Agents & tool use The model landscape Why this breaks testing Lab 1 — Dissect a turn
02

Evaluate AI Systems

8 parts
The core problem Evaluation methodology Metrics & their limits LLM-as-judge Metamorphic & property thinking Bias, hallucination, safety, red-teaming Data-quality testing Lab 2 — Complete the eval harness
03

Work with AI

7 parts
Prompt engineering for test work Cases & Gherkin from requirements Test data generation Generating automation code AI for exploratory, logs, bug triage The dark side Lab 3 — The handover audit
04

Capstone

1 part
Capstone — the pre-launch assessment
How it works

From sign-up to certificate

1
Create your account

A minute to sign up — no card needed to look around.

2
Pick your course

One-time payment, no subscription. Instant access.

3
Learn by doing

Interactive lessons and browser labs, at your own pace.

4
Earn your certificate

Pass the final exam for a certificate anyone can verify.

Start Applied AI for Software Professionals today.

One payment, full access while you study, and a certificate that's yours to keep.

Enroll now — €349