Curriculum | Beta Cohort at doors2ai

Approach

What the Beta Cohort includes

A guided, beginner-friendly learning experience designed to help you build real applications with structured teaching, hands-on practice, and one end-to-end project.

Learning Format

Live weekend sessions
Hands-on coding exercises
Guided end-to-end project
Structured weekly progression

Teaching Approach

Strong fundamentals first
Learn by building
Visual explanations and real examples
Thinking before tools

Mentorship

Code reviews and feedback
Guided project support
Help when you get stuck
Industry-oriented best practices

Outcomes

Build a real Smart Notes Assistant
Learn how web applications work end to end
Create a portfolio-ready project
Gain confidence with AI integration

Beta Cohort

AI-Powered Full Stack Development

12 weeks

Build a Smart Notes Assistant through a structured, beginner-friendly curriculum that covers web fundamentals, backend APIs, a simple database, and AI integration.

Beginner • Live cohort • Portfolio project

Program structure

Phase 1 — Foundations

Weeks 1–3 • 6 topics

How modern web applications work
HTML fundamentals and page structure
CSS fundamentals and styling
Responsive layouts with Flexbox
JavaScript basics (variables, functions)
DOM interaction and events

Phase 2 — Interactive Frontend

Weeks 4–6 • 5 topics

JavaScript DOM interaction
Handling user input and events
Rendering notes on the page
Editing and deleting notes
Building a functional notes interface

Phase 3 — Backend Development

Weeks 7–8 • 6 topics

Python fundamentals for backend development
Conditions, loops, and functions
Introduction to JSON and data exchange
FastAPI fundamentals (GET and POST APIs)
Building simple backend APIs
Connecting frontend to backend APIs

Phase 4 — Database Integration

Week 9 • 3 topics

Database fundamentals (tables, rows, columns)
Basic SQL (insert, select)
Integrating SQLite with FastAPI

Phase 5 — AI Integration

Weeks 10–11 • 5 topics

Introduction to AI and LLM APIs
Sending user input to an AI API
Receiving and displaying AI responses
Adding AI summarization to the notes app
Improving the AI feature with clear instructions

Phase 6 — Final Project & GitHub

Week 12 • 3 topics

Completing the Smart Notes Assistant
Code organization and project structure
GitHub basics: repo, commit, and push

Tools you will use

HTML • CSS • JavaScript • Python • FastAPI • SQLite • AI API • GitHub

What you will build

Responsive web interface
Interactive notes features
Backend APIs with FastAPI
Database-connected notes app
AI-powered Smart Notes Assistant
GitHub-ready portfolio project

Outcome

Build your first Smart Notes Assistant and prepare it as a GitHub-ready portfolio project.

Coming Soon

Future learning paths at doors2ai

After the Beta Cohort, learners will be able to continue into more specialized paths in frontend, full stack, and AI application development.

Path 1

Web Development Foundations

Focus on frontend fundamentals, responsive UI, React, and Next.js.

Path 2

Full Stack Development

Focus on APIs, backend architecture, database integration, and deployment.

Path 3

AI Application Development

Focus on AI APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, and modern AI workflows.

Beta Cohort — Your learning journey