Hands-on LLMs for Software Engineers

ALHIKMAH TECH · A PLACE FOR UNDERSTANDING

الحكمة

From curiosity
to understanding.

Understand language models from the inside. A code-first journey through the ideas, mathematics, and experiments that make them work.

Begin the course Explore the chapters

For curious developers. No machine learning prerequisites.

OBSERVE · QUESTION · BUILD

A study in language & learningWritten lessons ✦ Runnable notebooks ✦ Recorded sessions

THE COURSE / CHAPTERS 01—03

Understanding, step by step.

Start with the questions. Build the foundations.
Then put every idea to work in code.

First principles, first experiments

History, Background, and First Steps

From language prediction to your first API calls, tool-use loops, and chat templates.

LESSON · NOTEBOOK · VIDEOS

Putting a measure to uncertainty

Measuring Uncertainty

Build an intuition for entropy and cross-entropy—the mathematics of better predictions.

LESSON · NOTEBOOK · VIDEO

Where theory meets the experiment

From Theory to Practice

Learn patterns in rock-paper-scissors, generate names with bigrams, and meet the limits of counting.

LESSON · NOTEBOOK · VIDEO

KNOWLEDGE THROUGH PRACTICE

A notebook is your workshop.

Read the explanation. Try the experiment. Change an assumption and see what happens. Each chapter brings together a written lesson, hands-on code, and a recorded conversation to help the ideas take root.