Join this short course on Gemini CLI, taught by Jack Wotherspoon, Developer Advocate at Google.
Gemini CLI is an open-source agentic coding assistant that works from your terminal, giving it access to your local filesystem, development tools, and cloud services. This lets you delegate complex workflows—from building web features to creating marketing materials—through high-level instructions while the agent autonomously plans and executes multiple steps.
In this course, you’ll apply Gemini CLI to software development and creative tasks by building features for an AI conference. You’ll develop a website session catalog, create a data dashboard combining local and cloud data sources, and generate social media content from recordings. You’ll master context management, integrate MCP servers, and orchestrate across multiple services with Gemini CLI extensions.
I am enjoying the topic .. but it seems there are tasks we should complete before starting the training. For example, make a local copy of the code from GitHub and save the conference schedule on google workspaces. I see the “Course Material & Installation Guide” in the course material, but it does not discuss these other tasks.
Same issue. The course is great but lacks the instructions on how to configure the course materials to follow along with the course instructions. I seem to be spending more time trying to configure the course materials to work with the instructions from the instructor. Can you provide more details? Thank you.
I though the overall structure of this course was quite good. I didn’t find the github installation to be difficult. I was however a bit uneasy about giving this tool access to my local data. Might it accidentally erase or modify my data? Could it be sending some of my data off to Google? I’d like to think the answer is “emphatically not!” but that seemed to me like an concern that I think should have been addressed in the course.
Some guidelines, yes, clone the repo and you will find info about the structure (in the readme). The idea is to have the prompts ready to copy and clone in your own terminal while you watch the instructor’s explanation.
For specific references on Gemini CLI installation, check the official documentation here.
And for reporting bugs, about the same Gemini CLI, check here.
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