FRONTIER Academy
Learn to code for the era where AI writes it.
AI now writes most code. The job has shifted from typing it to designing, reading, and judging it. Courses split into two failures: pre-AI curricula that pretend nothing changed, and prompting-tips products with no foundation. This course does both jobs: BLITZ, the complete working method, on day zero, then the real junior-level foundations that unlock its final step. By the end you operate above your raw skill level and can prove it.
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The honest promise
It opens with BLITZ — the complete working method, run end to end on day zero. Across the 28 full-time days that follow, then the exam, you will read unfamiliar code with confidence, understand and judge architecture, hold a real technical conversation, write secure code you can test, and build, deploy, and ship a full-stack product for a real client brief.
The anti-promise, stated plainly: nobody becomes a senior in a month. Seniority is judgment earned by being wrong for years. We make you dangerous enough to operate above your level — and honest enough to know where it ends.
Who it's for
Beginners and light tinkerers — the twenty-year-old starting now, the career switcher — and working devs who never built a disciplined way of shipping with AI: day zero is for all of them; the foundation days are for those still learning to read code. A placement gate at the end of week one handles the skill gap: pass it any day and skip ahead. Two tracks, same content: Sprint (30 days, 6–8h/day) or Standard (60–90 days, 2–3h/day). Days are sequence numbers, not calendar promises.
The method
Every lesson runs the same loop: See one visual matched to the concept, Read a worked example, Do an exercise under the phase's AI rule, Prove it on a fresh AI-graded reading test — the integrity gate that keeps every AI-assisted phase honest.
- The method first: BLITZ on day zero — runnable immediately, mastered by the exam
- Foundation by hand before AI touches a concept
- One concept, two costumes — a TypeScript spine, a Java mirror
- Understand the layer beneath before adopting the framework
- Project-anchored, never tutorial-anchored
- Review means architectural reading: structure, responsibilities, pattern-correctness
- A recurring threat model: how AI gets this wrong
- The AI role ladder is the spine: explain-only → reviewer → pair → the subject → docs-first
The curriculum — BLITZ on day zero, 28 days in six phases, then the exam
The exam stands apart from the days, two steps in order. Step one: unfamiliar code with empty rows interleaved — write what every marked line means, then a project tree the same way; AI grades it against a rubric, pass or not. Step two: a pass generates your client brief — plan the stack, build it, deploy it, submit the live URL and the repo.
0BLITZday 0 · 5 lessons
- The method first — the whole working loop on day zero, before any foundations
- Everything here runs today except the last verification tier; the 28 days exist to hand you that
- Two run paths: web chat with zero setup, or Claude Code for working devs
- 00The BLITZ method
1Foundationsdays 1–7 · 28 lessons
- TS only
- Reading tests evolve: explain-the-line (D1–2) → predict-the-output (D3+) → why-is-this-line-here (D4+)
- Placement gate attemptable any day; pass and skip ahead
- 01Setup & first program
- 02Decisions
- 03Repetition
- 04Functions
- 05Collections
- 06Objects & OOP intro
- 07Errors & the gate· gate
2Java mirror & structuredays 8–12 · 20 lessons
- "Review this / why does this break / compare A vs B" — the student still writes everything
- Reading tests go side-by-side TS/Java
- 08Java mirror I
- 09Java mirror II
- 10Structuring a program
- 11Git
- 12Data· diagram v0
3Architecture & first builddays 13–18 · 25 lessons
- Everything AI produces is explained back before acceptance
- Review exercises (planted structural issues) debut on D15
- 13How to think
- 14The wire· diagram v1
- 15Architecture
- 16Frontend
- 17The framework layer
- 18Milestone build· diagram auth
4Working with AIdays 19–23 · 22 lessons
- AI is the subject of study, not the assistant
- D21–22 teach the two ways of working in depth: web chat, then Claude Code
- 19Context
- 20Plan → think → ask
- 21Modality I: web chat, done properly
- 22Modality II: Claude Code, done properly
- 23Building software that uses AI
5The stack & deploymentdays 24–26 · 14 lessons
- The stated exception to the by-hand rule
- Every integration: Do = wire it via docs/AI into the running app; Prove = explain your own glue code
- 24Stack I
- 25Stack II + first deploy· diagram final
- 26Enterprise taste & review consolidation
6Hardeningdays 27–28 · 10 lessons
- Security and testing — the working knowledge a junior is expected to have but is never taught
- Day 27 teaches the attacker's lens; Day 28 the proof you can hold: tests + the review loop
- 27Security: the attacker's lens
- 28Testing & reviewing: proof you can hold
The examafter day 28 · two steps · in order
Separate from the days. Two steps, in order: prove you can read, then prove you can build.
- 1Step 1 — read the code, read the project· AI-graded gateUnfamiliar code with empty rows interleaved — write what each marked line means. Then a project tree the same way: what lives where, and why. Graded by AI against a rubric: pass or not.
- 2Step 2 — the client build· URL + repoPassing step 1 generates your client brief. Plan the stack and structure, build it, deploy it, and submit the live URL plus the git repo.
Deliberately out of scope
- Python — we build apps that consume models — TypeScript's territory; building models is a different career
- Agent-config file culture — tools change monthly; the method is what transfers
- Needle-in-haystack bug hunting — a senior skill; we train architectural reading instead
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