Five free steps, in order, from your first line of Python to a live AI project on your résumé

The companion to the reel. Step 1: Python with Harvard's CS50P (free, with a free CS50 certificate). Step 2: how LLMs actually work, with Andrej Karpathy's Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT. Step 3: RAG with IBM's Mastering RAG path (6 guided projects, free certificate). Step 4: agents with the Hugging Face AI Agents Course (2 free certificates). Step 5, the one most people skip: ship one project live on Streamlit Community Cloud, powered by the Gemini API free tier, and put the link on your résumé. Those five are the bare minimum, so the guide adds 21 more free courses to go deeper at every step (SQL, Git, ML basics, LangGraph, MCP, evals, Docker, cloud), including 6 more free certificates and badges. PAGE 1 — the path at a glance. PAGES 2–3 — each course: what you learn, the free proof quoted from the provider's own page, exactly how the certificate is earned, and the catch. PAGE 4 — the ship-it step: 3 project ideas, a checklist and a résumé line. PAGES 5–6 — go deeper: the full course list, plus what 903 AI engineer job posts ask for. PAGE 7 — an 8-week plan and the free accounts to create on day one. Every fact checked on the providers' own pages on September 27, 2026. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Harvard, Andrej Karpathy, IBM, Hugging Face, Streamlit or Google.

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