Non-Coder to AI Developer: Build Real IT Automation Tools with Cursor and Claude
“Stop Waiting on Developers. Build Your Own IT Tools.”
Use Cursor and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate, run, and iterate on a working Python ticket triage script — without memorising a single line of syntax.
One-time · Lifetime access · Certificate included
- ✓6 modules of content
- ✓18 practical exercises
- ✓24 quiz questions
- ✓Capstone project
- ✓LearnAspire certificate
Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
The day after you finish
The day after completing this course, you will open your Downloads folder, drop Monday morning's ServiceNow CSV export into your project folder, run your triage script from the terminal with a single command, and hand your team a formatted priority report CSV before the 9 a.m. standup — without asking a developer for anything.
Who this is for
- Primary: Mid-career IT Operations Manager, Help Desk Lead, or IT Coordinator with 5–8 years of hands-on IT experience who has never written code and wants to automate repetitive workflow tasks using AI tools
- Secondary: Business Analyst or IT Project Coordinator who regularly exports data from Jira or ServiceNow and manually reformats it into reports — and wants to stop doing that by hand
- Tertiary: IT Director or VP of Operations who manages a team of the above roles and wants to understand what AI-assisted tooling can realistically produce so they can set accurate expectations and evaluate team capability
Prerequisites
- Comfortable opening and navigating files and folders on macOS or Windows — you do not need to know what a terminal is yet, it is introduced and defined in Module 1
- Have exported at least one CSV file from any system (ServiceNow, Jira, Excel) — you know what a CSV is from opening it in Excel, nothing more is assumed
- No Python knowledge, no coding background, and no prior experience with Cursor or Claude is required or assumed at any point in this course
Curriculum
6 modules · full breakdown
🪄 Part of: Non-Coder to AI Builder Path
Capstone Project
Hartwell Ticket Triage Engine: A Fully Prompted, Documented, Deployable Python Script
Learners build the complete ticket triage script from scratch using only plain-English prompts in Cursor — no manual code editing. The script reads Hartwell Medical Group's 50-row ServiceNow-style CSV, classifies each ticket into Critical / High / Medium / Low urgency using an AI-generated classification function, outputs a formatted priority report CSV, and handles the three most common failure modes (missing column, bad encoding, empty description field) that were encountered and fixed during the course. The learner then writes a plain-English README in Cursor documenting every prompt used to build the script, every error encountered and how it was fixed, and a one-paragraph explanation of what the script does — and publishes the script plus README as a GitHub Gist.
What you'll deliver
A GitHub Gist containing: (1) triage_script.py — the complete working Python 3.12 script generated via Cursor prompts, tested against the course's 50-row Hartwell CSV and producing a verified output file; (2) README.md — a plain-English document written by the learner in Cursor that lists every prompt used to generate and fix the script, describes the four urgency categories and the logic behind them, and explains how to run the script on a new CSV export; (3) hartwell_triage_output.csv — the actual output file produced by the learner's local script run, submitted as proof of execution