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generative-ai-for-beginners – Launch Your First Generative AI Project

Name: generative-ai-for-beginners – Launch Your First Generative AI Project
Author: microsoft

Learn to build with ChatGPT, DALL·E and Azure in 21 hands‑on lessons. Perfect for founders new to generative AI, backed by 121k+ GitHub stars.

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free

121,040 stars+101★ this week63,816 forksJupyter NotebookGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Sep 29Updated 10/8/2026100% free · open source

What it is

Learn the basics of building with Generative AI through 21 practical lessons.

Real use case example

"A founder wants to create a chatbot for their company's customer service. They follow Microsoft's lessons to build a simple chatbot in Jupyter Notebook, and after 4-6 hours of work, they have a working prototype that can answer customer queries."

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When to use it

•When you need to understand the fundamentals of generative AI
•When you want to build a generative AI model for a specific use case
•When you need to learn how to use Jupyter Notebooks for AI development

Ready-to-paste prompt

Open the 'Lesson 5' notebook and run the cell containing 'from generative_ai import *; generate_text(prompt="Write a short story about a character who...")' to generate a short story

Heads up: Make sure you have the required dependencies installed, including Python 3.8 or later, Jupyter Notebook, and the required libraries listed in the 'requirements.txt' file in the repository

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Use with Claude

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Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/generative-ai-for-beginners && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/generative-ai-for-beginners/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/generative-ai-for-beginners/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

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How generative-ai-for-beginners – Launch Your First Generative AI Project works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Generative-ai-for-beginners – Launch Your First Generative AI Project is a small Jupyter Notebook project (~3k lines across 44 code files). Setup is light: install Node.js, run one command. Last commit this month, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size

Small codebase

~3k lines · 44 code files · 25 min skim

Setup

Light setup

Install Node.js, run one command.

Runs on

Node.js · Python

No API keys detected

Jupyter Notebook 100%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
AGENTS.md
The instructions the AI actually follows
3
package.json
Dependencies and the commands it exposes

What's in each folder

translated_images/Folder8030 files

translations/Translations3811 files

08-building-search-applications/Folder31 files

06-text-generation-apps/Folder27 files

09-building-image-applications/Folder19 files

07-building-chat-applications/Folder18 files

10-building-low-code-ai-applications/Folder15 files

images/Images & static assets14 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksMIT licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

✅ Light setup

Installs with a command or two; your AI agent can do it for you.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/generative-ai-for-beginners && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/generative-ai-for-beginners/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/generative-ai-for-beginners/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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microsoft

Language

Jupyter Notebook

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