CS 890 Schedule
Schedule
Week 1: August 24
Lectures:
- Tuesday - Course Introduction + How LLMs Actually Work
- Thursday - From LLM to Agent: The Loop, System Prompts, and Tool Calls
Out of Class Activities
- Assigned Thursday (due 11:55pm, Wednesday Sept 2): Exercise: Transcript Critique
Week 2: August 31
Lectures:
- Tuesday - Claude Code Hands-On: Permissions, CLAUDE.md, Plan Mode
- Thursday - Prompting + Spec-Driven Development
Out of Class Activities
- Assigned Tuesday (due 11:55pm, Monday Sept 7): Exercise 2: Codebase Comprehension with Claude Code
- Assigned Thursday (kickoff due 11:55pm, Sunday Sept 13): Project 0: Personal Knowledge Base
Week 3: September 7
Lectures:
- Tuesday - Anatomy of a Coding Agent: Building the Toy Agent
- Thursday - Context, Cost, Verification, and the Road Ahead
Out of Class Activities
- Assigned Tuesday (due 11:55pm, Monday Sept 14): Exercise 4: Build a Toy Coding Agent