A hands-on training course for learning Spring AI through progressive lab exercises.

This repository contains starter code for a comprehensive Spring AI training course. Students build functionality incrementally through guided TODO exercises.

• main branch: Starter code with TODO-guided exercises
• solutions branch: Complete implementations for reference
• labs.md: Step-by-step lab instructions and exercises
• slides.md: Comprehensive Slidev presentation for training sessions

1. Java 17+
2. Environment Variables:

   export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key
   export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key  # Optional

# Clone the repository (main branch contains starter code)
git clone https://github.com/kousen/Spring_AI_Training_Course.git
cd Spring_AI_Training_Course

# Build the project
./gradlew build

# Run basic tests (many will be empty until you implement them)
./gradlew test

# View complete solutions (when needed)
git checkout solutions

Follow the exercises in labs.md to build Spring AI applications from scratch:

1. Basic Chat Interactions - Simple AI conversations
2. Streaming Responses - Real-time AI responses
3. Structured Data Extraction - AI-powered data parsing
4. Prompt Templates - Reusable AI prompts
5. Chat Memory - Conversation context
6. Vision Capabilities - Image analysis
7. Image Generation - AI-created images
8. AI Tools - Function calling
9. Audio Processing - Speech-to-text and text-to-speech
10. AI Response Evaluation - Quality assurance for AI systems (advanced)
11. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) - AI with knowledge base
12. Production RAG - Redis vector store optimization

• Start with TODOs: Each test class contains guided TODO comments
• Build incrementally: Complete one lab before moving to the next
• Reference solutions: Check the solutions branch when needed
• Hands-on learning: Learn by implementing, not copying

• Lab Instructions: See labs.md for step-by-step exercises
• Presentation Slides: Use slides.md with Slidev for training sessions
• Complete Examples: Switch to solutions branch for working implementations
• Issues: Report problems via GitHub issues

# Install Slidev globally
npm install -g @slidev/cli

# Start the presentation
slidev slides.md

# Export to PDF
slidev export slides.md

Note: Pre-exported versions are available as slides-export.pdf and slides-export.pptx