Am-Can Business & Tech School
Ontario High School Courses Online, or In Person at Our Vaughan Campus
Ontario private secondary school, Vaughan · OSSD courses, Grades 9 to 12Redefining High School Education in CanadaOntario Ministry of Education BSID 667377
Large Language Models: Build a Text Generator
Self-paced · About 14 hours · Final assessment within 3 weeks of unlocking · 100% online
Large language models (LLMs) power today's AI chatbots. In this level you learn how they turn words into tokens and predict what comes next, then you build your own text generator and see why the wording of a prompt changes the answer.
What you will be able to do
- Split text into tokens and count them
- Build word patterns from a body of text
- Generate new text by predicting the next word
- Control randomness in generated text
- Explain how prompts steer a language model, and where models go wrong
Your learning path (suggested hours)
| Stage | Hours |
|---|---|
| Learn: short lessons and worked examples | 4 |
| Practise and debug: coding challenges with instant checks | 4 |
| Build: your level project | 4 |
| Assessment: preparation and final assessment | 2 |
| Total | 14 |
Why take it with Am-Can
- Your code is actually run and tested, with marked results within 24 hours of submitting.
- Feedback on your work, plus the option to request a review by an instructor.
- A Certificate of Completion for this level when you pass.
- Pass this level to unlock Level 7, Prompt Engineering: Design and Test AI Prompts.
How it works
- Study any time; there is no timetable. The hours above are a suggested allocation.
- Your final assessment is due 3 weeks from the day this level is unlocked. Finish early and move up sooner.
- Access to this level ends on the final assessment date.
Assessment
- Coding challenges, run and marked automatically
- A multiple-choice quiz
- Your level project, marked against a rubric
- Pass mark: 70% overall
Enrolment requirements
- Prerequisite: Pass Level 5.
- Student in grades 7 to 12, or the equivalent outside Canada
- Written consent from a parent or guardian for applicants under 18, returned before access is granted
- Verified email address and proof of age and identity on the student profile
- Domestic students may provide their Ontario Education Number (OEN) (optional)
- A laptop or desktop computer with an up-to-date web browser (phones and tablets are not suited to coding)
Fees
Whether this level is free or paid is decided by your free assessment. See AI Coding Courses: Fees and Payment for every fee, how to pay and the refund policy.
These are non-credit courses. They do not earn OSSD credits and do not count toward the Ontario Secondary School Diploma.
