Software engineering with large language models
Familiarise yourself with the principles for training and fine-tuning large language models for software engineering tasks. Utilise large language models to assist in program development. Build applications that interact with large language models.
Schedule:
Continuously ongoing
Teaching time:
Self-paced
Topic:
Information and communications technology
Form of learning:
Online
Provider:
Aalto University, FITech
Level:
Intermediate
Credits:
2 By Aalto University (ECTS)
Fee:
Free of charge
Application period:
No application needed
Target group and prerequisites
No formal prerequisites, however it is good to have a general understanding of programming and software development.Course description
Course contents
Producing code with large language models, software engineering and software development life cycle, constructing programs with large language models, quality and applicability of large language model produced code, constructing programs that interact with large language models, issues and concerns related to using large language models for software engineering.
Learning outcomes
After the course you
- know of the phases in the software development life cycle and can apply large language models as a part of the software development life cycle
- can create programs with the support of large language models and can create programs that interact with large language models
- can critically evaluate large language model outputs and know of issues of using large language models in software engineering.
Completion methods
Online assignments.