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🎓 Student / Learner Path

L50 L100 L200

You're new to AI agents and want to learn from scratch — completely free, no Azure subscription, no credit card.

Phase 1 — Understand the Concepts (no account needed)

Order Lab Title Level Time
1 Lab 001 What are AI Agents? L50 ~15 min
2 Lab 004 How LLMs Work L50 ~20 min
3 Lab 005 Prompt Engineering L50 ~25 min
4 Lab 006 What is RAG? L50 ~20 min
5 Lab 008 Responsible AI L50 ~20 min

Phase 2 — Hands-on (free GitHub account)

Order Lab Title Level Time
6 Lab 013 GitHub Models — Free LLMs L100 ~25 min
7 Lab 078 Foundry Local — Run Models Offline L100 ~45 min
8 Lab 015 Ollama — Local LLMs L100 ~30 min
9 Lab 072 Structured Outputs — Guaranteed JSON L100 ~45 min
10 Lab 081 Agentic Coding Tools L100 ~45 min

Phase 3 — Build Your First Agent (still free!)

Order Lab Title Level Time
11 Lab 076 Microsoft Agent Framework L200 ~75 min
12 Lab 022 RAG with GitHub Models L200 ~50 min
13 Lab 060 Reasoning Models — o3 & DeepSeek L200 ~75 min

Total: 13 labs · ~8 hours · 100% free — no Azure, no credit card