This repository hosts the Getting Started workshop offered by the AI Service Centre Berlin Brandenburg. It introduces the development tools and workflows — VSCode, Git, WSL, Python, UV, Ollama, and Docker — that participants will use across our workshops.
All workshop content lives in 03_workshop/. The workshop's own README is the entry point:
It contains the agenda, the per-tool guides, the Jupyter notebooks for replay at home, and the slides.
This repository also includes a small chatbot application that demonstrates what you can build once your environment is set up:
01_frontend/— React chat interface02_backend/— FastAPI server with Ollama integrationdocker-compose.yml— runs the full stack locally
The chatbot is the final demo of the workshop (section 8). See 03_workshop/guides/08_chatbot_demo.md for the walkthrough.
workshop-getting-started/
├── README.md ← you are here
├── 03_workshop/ main workshop content
│ ├── README.md workshop entry point: agenda + format
│ ├── guides/ per-tool guides (one per agenda item)
│ ├── notebooks/ Jupyter notebooks for replay at home
│ ├── slides/ workshop slides (English + German)
│ └── _archive/ deprecated pre-May 2026 setup guides
├── 01_frontend/ React chatbot UI (chatbot demo, §8)
├── 02_backend/ FastAPI backend (chatbot demo, §8)
├── docker-compose.yml orchestration for the chatbot stack
├── run.sh one-command launcher for the chatbot
├── 00_aisc/ AISC branding assets
└── pyproject.toml Python project config (UV-managed)
Questions or installation issues: kisz@hpi.de
This project is licensed under the MIT license — see the LICENSE file for details.
The AI Service Centre Berlin Brandenburg is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space under the funding code 01IS22092.