Google Apps Scripts and Web Development Tutorials and Resources by Laurence Svekis
Vibe Teaching — Issue #11 Designing AI-Powered Assessments (When AI Can Do the Work) Let’s address the elephant in the room. AI can now: • write essays• solve problems• generate code• explain concepts• create projects So what does it mean to assess learning anymore? If AI can produce the answer… What are we actually measuring? … Read more
After watching the official highlights and attending Google Cloud Next 2026, one thing stands out clearly: 👉 AI is no longer helping you do work.👉 AI is now doing the work. This is the moment where the conversation shifts—from tools to systems, from prompts to execution. ⚡ The Headline: We’re Now in the Agentic Era … Read more
After attending Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, one thing became clear very quickly: 👉 The biggest story isn’t AI models. It’s what’s happening inside Google Workspace. This isn’t about adding AI features to Docs or Gmail. This is about something much bigger: Work itself is being re-architected. 🧠 The Real Shift: From Tools … Read more
🚀 Apps Script + Gemini Mastery — Issue #21 AI Task Manager for Google Sheets Turn raw notes, project updates, or meeting summaries into structured tasks automatically using Google Apps Script + Gemini. ⭐ What You Will Build In this issue, you’ll build an AI Task Manager that can: ✅ Extract tasks from plain text📅 … Read more
Vibe Teaching — Issue #10 Building Student Independence with AI There’s a subtle danger in AI-powered learning. Students can become faster… …but also more dependent. The Hidden Dependency Problem AI makes everything easier: • answers come instantly• explanations are clear• problems get solved quickly But over time, something starts to happen. Students begin to rely … Read more
🚀 Vibe Coding — Issue #28 Fast Enough First: Performance Thinking Without Premature Optimization Performance • Bottlenecks • Efficiency • Tradeoffs • Real-World Speed Every developer wants fast applications. But many systems don’t suffer from slow code… They suffer from misplaced effort. Optimizing the wrong thingat the wrong timefor the wrong reason. Issue #28 is … Read more
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AI is no longer the future — it is a skill you need right now. In this course, you will move beyond just understanding AI and start using it in practical, real-world ways. You will learn how modern AI works, how to write effective prompts, and how to build simple workflows that turn AI into … Read more
🚀 Foundations of AI: Generative AI Is Already Here Generative AI is no longer the future—it’s happening right now. In this video, we break down the foundations of AI and explore how generative AI is transforming the way we create, learn, and work. From writing content and generating images to building applications and teaching with … Read more
I’ve been working on something a little different lately. Instead of teaching JavaScript through lessons…I asked a simple question: What if you could learn to code by experiencing it? So I created a short film:JavaScript: The Movie It follows a developer pulled into an AI system where nothing exists unless it’s defined, structured, and executed … Read more