Weekly folders — AI for TPM / Technical PM
This directory maps TPM-PM-AI-Technical-Learning-Plan.md to 14 consecutive weeks of hands-on work. Concepts and resource lists are in ../learn/ (topic path). Each week folder is self-contained:
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
README.md |
Start here each week: problem statement, scenario, deliverables |
TOPICS.md |
Practice lab sheet — extra drills + checklist; links to the matching Learn chapter |
READINGS.md |
What to read or skim before practice (docs, concepts) |
PRACTICE.md |
Hands-on assignments (“learn by doing”) |
EXAM.md |
End-of-week check—redo without peeking at notes until you’ve answered |
Shared environment: ../practice-env/ — SQLite cloudnote.db, corpus/ for RAG weeks, SQL drills.
Graduate-style detail: TPM-PM-AI-Graduate-Course.md
Where to put your work: create my-submissions/week-XX/ at the repo root (or inside each week-XX/ folder) so your prompts, SQL, and exports stay organized.
Week index
| Folder | Focus | Phase (plan) |
|---|---|---|
| week-01 | LLM fundamentals, jargon, context limits; setup practice-env |
Phase 0 |
| week-02 | Prompt patterns: role/constraints, few-shot, decomposition | Phase 1 |
| week-03 | CoT, self-critique, tool-use framing; 10-Q eval sheet | Phase 1 |
| week-04 | SQL as source of truth; natural language → SQL | Phase 2 |
| week-05 | Text-to-SQL safety; threat model; drills | Phase 2 |
| week-06 | Plots + quantitative validation | Phase 3 |
| week-07 | RAG pipeline (ingest → retrieve → cite) | Phase 4 |
| week-08 | RAG failure modes; midterm | Phase 4 |
| week-09 | Chatbot UX, logging, rate limits | Phase 5 |
| week-10 | Minimal chat UI; incident playbook | Phase 5 |
| week-11 | Prototypes: reproducibility, Streamlit/Gradio path | Phase 6 |
| week-12 | Demo script; cost/latency; capstone kickoff | Phase 6 |
| week-13 | Agentic loops; human-in-the-loop; idempotency | Phase 7 |
| week-14 | Capstone integration; extras review; final review | Phase 7 + Capstone |
How to consume each week (recommended order)
- Learn chapter (from
../learn/README.md) — study the topic that matches this week when you need concepts or links. README.md→READINGS.md→PRACTICE.md— course assignments in full.TOPICS.md— practice bank rows (problem / data / outcome) as extra drills.EXAM.md— self-test before checking solutions or notes.
Note on “Week 1” vs prompt engineering
Week 1 is fundamentals and setup (tokens, context window, jargon)—not full prompt-engineering patterns. Prompt engineering patterns start in Weeks 2–3, aligned with Phase 1 in the master plan.