Repository for AI modules at El Camino College, Fall 2026.
Launch links open notebooks on El Camino Hub. Each notebook can also run on Google Colab.
| Notebook | Launch on El Camino Hub | Open in Colab |
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| Write with AI: Prompts, Settings, and Your Own Style |  |
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| Why Does AI Forget? Building a Chat Assistant with Memory | |
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| How Does a Recommender Know What's “Similar”? | |
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| Choosing the Right Model: Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning | |
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| How Do Language Models Work? From Words to Answers | |
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| From Idea to Launch: Running an AI Project | |
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- Open it with the launch link above (or in Colab).
- Run everything once: on the Hub, Kernel → Restart Kernel and Run All Cells; on Colab, Runtime → Run all.
- Move the sliders, click the buttons, answer the questions, and say why you chose what you chose.
The notebooks that use a language model (Write with AI, Why Does AI Forget?, How Do Language Models Work?) set themselves up. On the Hub the model is already provided; on Colab the first run downloads it (about 0.8 GB, roughly 3–5 minutes).
Each notebook has a short check at the start and a similar one at the end, plus a few quick prediction and quiz questions. They are optional and nothing is graded. Answers are sent anonymously (a random code, no name or email) and are used only to learn whether the notebooks help and how to improve them.