CodePal — AI Training Partner for Competitive Programming
An AI-powered platform that prepares students for Codeforces, ICPC, and national olympiads using Socratic method — not by giving answers, but by teaching how to think.
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Teaching My Kid Programming with AI — Part 3: From Side Project to Product
What three months of AI tutoring taught me about pedagogy, LLM limitations, and why I turned a personal experiment into a product.
Teaching My Kid Programming with AI — Part 2: The Dev Container
How I replaced a $600/month API setup with a reproducible VSCode dev container running Claude Code — and why it works better for teaching.
Teaching My Kid Programming with AI — Part 1.5: The $20 Session
One tutoring session cost $20 in API fees. Here’s why, and what I’m doing about it.
Teaching My Kid Programming with AI — Part 1: The Setup
How a 20-year tech veteran set up an AI tutor on Discord to teach his child competitive programming — and what happened on day one.