Learn by prompting

Books you run, not read.

Every AppyLearn Promptbook is a sequence of prompts you run in your preferred AI assistant. The conversation adapts to you; the learning remains yours.

  • Use any AI assistant
  • Learn by doing
  • Keep your conversation private

How it works

Three steps, repeated until you know it.

Bring ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or another AI assistant. AppyLearn brings the learning sequence.

01

Copy a prompt

Each book begins by calibrating to you, then moves through learning, practice, deliberate errors, and checks.

02

Run it in your AI

Your AI becomes a patient tutor that can use your context, respond to your work, and adjust the pace.

03

Do the real work

You answer, build, recover, and explain. The conversation is the lesson—not a summary of one.

The library

Small books. Finishable books.

Designed for a real outcome in one afternoon, plus a short recall session the next day to make it stick.

Technical · Available now

Git in an Afternoon

Version control from zero to your first pushed repository.

19 prompts · 3–4 hours, plus 5 minutes tomorrow

Build real Git confidence through commits, recovery, branches, a deliberate merge conflict, and GitHub.

You'll make

A GitHub-backed practice repository with branches and a resolved merge conflict.

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Work & Communication · Available now

Clear Writing at Work

Write emails, briefs, and updates people can act on.

19 prompts · 2.5–3 hours, plus 5 minutes tomorrow

Practise turning rough ideas into concise, useful workplace communication with targeted critique.

You'll make

A clear, audience-ready piece of workplace communication you can reuse as a model.

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Technical · Available now

Spreadsheets for Everyday Work

Turn a blank sheet into a useful tracker, answers, and a clear decision view.

15 prompts · 2–2.5 hours, plus 5 minutes tomorrow

Build a clean table, use practical formulas, recover from common errors, and create a summary someone can act on.

You'll make

A reliable tracker with formulas and a decision-ready summary view.

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Technical · Available now

Regex in a Weekend

Write, test, and debug useful regular expressions without needing to code.

15 prompts · 2–2.5 hours, plus 5 minutes tomorrow

Turn real text rules into precise patterns, catch near-misses, extract useful details, and approach search-and-replace safely.

You'll make

A tested set of regex patterns you can explain, refine, and safely reuse.

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Technical · Available now

Python Foundations in a Weekend

Build one small Python program through variables, decisions, lists, and loops.

3 chapters · 22 prompts · 4–5 hours, plus 5 minutes tomorrow

A connected, project-based deep-dive where every chapter extends the same practical budget helper.

You'll make

A small budget helper that processes data and makes a useful decision.

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Why it works

Learning science, built into every prompt.

The author designs the progression. The AI teaches responsively. You stay active throughout.

Starts with you

Calibration prompts adapt analogies and pace to what you already know.

Retrieval over re-reading

Questions and explanations make you produce the answer instead of just recognising it.

Safe mistakes on purpose

Practice includes controlled failures so you learn to diagnose and recover with confidence.

Spaced recall included

A fresh-chat check the next day closes the loop when remembering takes real effort.

“The author's craft is no longer explaining well. It is designing the conversation in which you can't help but learn.”

— the AppyLearn manifesto

Learn a real skill by doing it in conversation.

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