Code Assistants
Lesson 4: ChatGPT Features You Should Know
Master the key features of ChatGPT across different versions to maximize productivity, customize your experience, and understand important limitations for responsible use.
Lesson 1: Getting Started with ChatGPT - Setup & First Steps
Learn how to set up your ChatGPT account, navigate the interface, start effective conversations, and avoid common beginner mistakes. By the end, you'll be confidently using this powerful AI assistant for everyday tasks and creative projects.
Lesson 8: Publishing and Wrap-Up
With just an idea and a bit of time, a playable game is born — and now it’s ready to share. In this final chapter, we publish the project with a few clicks, reflect on the learning journey, and consider what it means for parents raising curious kids in the age of AI. Jippity shows how AI can empower kids not just to play, but to build — safely, independently, and creatively.
Lesson 4: The Physics of Flight
This section takes the project a step further, introducing foundational physics concepts like relative motion while improving the gameplay experience. Watch how a young coder (with help from Jippity) adds distance markers, camera following, and clever world translation — all through plain language, curiosity, and AI-powered support.
Lesson 3: Brainstorming with an AI and Setting Up Controls
In this step-by-step demo, watch how a simple game idea — a bird gliding across the screen — comes to life with Jippity, an AI-powered coding tool built for kids. You’ll see how AI can turn vague ideas into functional code, guide beginners through challenges, and help kids (and parents) learn programming by doing.
Lesson 1: Find a Tool You Can Trust as a Parent
Parents today face a new kind of dilemma: how do you empower your child with cutting-edge AI tools while protecting them from overwhelming complexity or online risk? In this thoughtful guide, a teacher and programmer (and parent) lays out a common-sense framework for navigating AI in your child’s learning life — and introduces Jippity, an AI-powered coding tool that strikes the right balance of safety, creativity, and fun.
Chapter 8: The Future of Vibe Coding & Next Steps
Explore cutting-edge tools, emerging trends, and future scenarios in AI-assisted development. Learn how coding assistants are evolving from simple autocomplete to autonomous agents, and discover strategies to stay relevant in this rapidly changing landscape.
Chapter 7: Security & Maintainability
Master the critical security and maintainability practices essential for vibe coding projects. Learn to identify and prevent common vulnerabilities in AI-generated code while maintaining clean, sustainable codebases that scale beyond rapid prototyping.
Chapter 6: Common Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them
Learn to identify and overcome the most common workflow breakdowns in vibe coding projects. Master techniques for maintaining discipline, managing AI context, and avoiding the pitfalls that derail even experienced vibe coders.
Chapter 5: Advanced Vibe Coding Techniques
Learn how to leverage AI tools to generate production-quality code from natural language prompts. This comprehensive guide covers planning strategies, version control workflows, iterative development techniques, and maintaining secure, maintainable software.
Chapter 4: Setting Up Rules for Vibe Coding
Learn how to set up effective rules in vibe coding tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline that act as system prompts, ensuring your AI coding assistant follows your preferred patterns, workflows, and coding standards.
Chapter 3: Prompting Strategies for Vibe Coding
Learn iterative prompting techniques to refine AI responses, improve code accuracy, and avoid common misunderstandings. This lesson focuses specifically on crafting prompts that produce high-quality, functional code through strategic communication with AI coding assistants.
Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Vibe Coding Environment
Master the art of AI-assisted coding by configuring VS Code with cutting-edge AI tools, establishing bulletproof project structures, and adopting proven practices that multiply your development speed while maintaining code quality.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Vibe Coding
Learn how AI-assisted coding tools are transforming software development by enabling developers to write code through natural language prompts. Discover leading AI coding tools, best practices for effective collaboration with AI, and step-by-step guidance to incorporate these tools into your programming workflow.
Prompt Engineering Foundations
Learn the core principles and advanced methods of prompt engineering that unlock the full potential of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more. From output control and sampling settings to advanced prompting frameworks, this lesson gives you the tools to drive better results, improve consistency, and think like a true AI collaborator.
Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Missing Link in AI Integration
Large language models are powerful—but limited by fragmented tools, shallow integrations, and poor context management. Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP): a universal interface that helps AI systems interact with real-world data, tools, and workflows. This course explores how MCP works, why it matters, and how to use it—from architectural concepts and layered context to real-world applications, multi-agent workflows, and implementation best practices.
Whether you’re a developer, researcher, or product leader, you’ll gain the foundational knowledge to build, integrate, and scale AI systems using structured, context-aware protocols.
AI-Powered Travel: Plan Smarter, Travel Better
This hands-on guide teaches you how to plan your next adventure with AI-powered travel assistants like ChatGPT, Roam Around, Hopper, and GuideGeek. From booking flights and finding hidden gems to packing lists and souvenir creation, you’ll learn how to use AI at every stage of the travel journey. Whether you’re a seasoned traveler or planning your first trip, this course shows how to save time, reduce stress, and uncover experiences you’d never find in a traditional guidebook.
Get the Most Out of Gemini
Get the Most Out of Gemini is your essential guide to using AI as a daily assistant, creative partner, and productivity booster. Whether you’re just starting or want to sharpen your prompting skills, this module walks you through everything—from setting up your environment and writing effective prompts, to using advanced features. With clear explanations, real-world use cases, and expert tips, you’ll learn how to turn Gemini into a powerful tool that works the way you work.
Get the Most Out of Claude
Get the Most Out of Claude is your essential guide to using AI as a daily assistant, creative partner, and productivity booster. Whether you’re just starting or want to sharpen your prompting skills, this module walks you through everything—from setting up your environment and writing effective prompts, to using advanced features. With clear explanations, real-world use cases, and expert tips, you’ll learn how to turn Claude into a powerful tool that works the way you work.
Get the Most Out of ChatGPT
Get the Most Out of ChatGPT is your essential guide to using AI as a daily assistant, creative partner, and productivity booster. Whether you’re just starting or want to sharpen your prompting skills, this module walks you through everything—from setting up your environment and writing effective prompts, to using advanced features like Memory and Custom GPTs. With clear explanations, real-world use cases, and expert tips, you’ll learn how to turn ChatGPT into a powerful tool that works the way you work.
Teaching Your Kid to Code by Making a Videogame in Under an Hour
In this hands-on walkthrough, a parent and teacher explores how kids can safely learn to code — and even build their first videogame — using AI. From keyboard controls to gliding physics and pixel art, discover how tools like Jippity are empowering the next generation of creators while giving parents peace of mind.
AI Literacy for Parents: What You Need to Know
Build your foundation in AI with this essential guide for parents. Learn the core concepts behind today’s AI tools, explore how they can benefit your family, understand their limitations, and set realistic expectations for how to use them. This chapter empowers you to confidently evaluate AI technologies and make informed choices for your home.
Vibe Coding 101: Build Faster with AI by Your Side
Vibe coding is a new way to build software—faster, more intuitively, and with powerful AI assistants like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT as your collaborators. This course teaches you the foundations of vibe coding, from setting up your environment to prompting strategies, debugging, and building real projects. Whether you’re creating SaaS apps or games, you’ll learn how to pair with AI to turn ideas into code, without starting from scratch.
AI Agents: From Theory to Application
Nick Wentz
Nick Wentz helps people harness the power of AI to improve everyday life. With a background in tech, media, and education, Nick builds practical, approachable learning experiences that make advanced AI tools accessible to everyone—from busy parents to ambitious professionals. His mission is simple: teach people how to use AI to save time, make smarter decisions, and build a better future.
Matthew Berman
Matthew Berman is the creator of Forward Future, where he interviews the thinkers and builders shaping the next era of AI. At Forward Future University, he translates those insights into clear, practical lessons to help people understand how AI really works—and how to use it. Known for making complex ideas feel human, Matthew blends storytelling with systems thinking to help learners stay ahead of the curve.
Jacob Shulman
Jacob Shulman is a teacher, programmer, and musician from Los Angeles. He is the cofounder of Jippity, the only AI-powered, kid-friendly coding workspace on the web.
Astro
Born in a simulated training orbit built by the first AGI research collective, Astro was designed to explore not just outer space—but the frontier of intelligence itself. Raised on a steady diet of curiosity, code, and cosmic questions, he now serves as Forward Future’s official ambassador of innovation. With one boot in reality and the other in possibility, Astro guides humans through the AI era with wonder, wisdom, and the occasional well-timed meme.
