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Google Apps Scripts and Web Development Tutorials and Resources by Laurence Svekis
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
🚀 Vibe Coding — Issue #27 Design That Makes Sense: Architecture Thinking in the Age of AI System Design • Architecture • Structure • Tradeoffs • Clarity at Scale At some point, writing code isn’t the hardest part anymore. It’s deciding: 👉 How should this system be structured?👉 Where should logic live?👉 How do these … Read more
Vibe Teaching — Issue #9 Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of AI Students have never had better answers. And that’s exactly the problem. When Answers Are Everywhere, Thinking Becomes Rare Today, students can ask AI almost anything: “Explain this…”“Solve this…”“Write this…” And within seconds, they get a response. Accurate.Well-structured.Confident. But here’s the danger: If … Read more
🚀 Vibe Coding — Issue #26 Finding the Signal: Debugging Faster, Smarter & with Less Guessing Debugging • Root Cause • Signals vs Noise • Systematic Thinking • AI-Assisted Investigation Every developer writes code. But the best developers know how to debug efficiently. Because when things break (and they always do), the difference isn’t effort … Read more
AI Email Generator for Gmail 🚀 Apps Script + Gemini Mastery — Issue #19 https://github.com/lsvekis/Apps-Script-Code-Snippets AI Email Generator for Gmail Automatically generate complete, context-aware emails inside Gmail using Google Apps Script + Gemini. ⭐ What You Will Build In this issue, you’ll build an AI Email Generator that can: 📧 Draft full emails from a … Read more
Vibe Teaching — Issue #8 AI Feedback Loops: Teaching That Adapts in Real Time One of the biggest limitations in traditional teaching is simple: Feedback comes too late. A student completes an assignment.Days later, they receive feedback.By then, the moment to learn has passed. The thinking is gone.The confusion is forgotten.The opportunity is lost. AI … Read more
Vibe Teaching — Issue #7 Beyond Prompts: Designing AI-Powered Learning Systems Most educators start using AI with prompts. “Explain this…”“Create a lesson…”“Generate questions…” And that’s a good start. But it’s only the beginning. Because the real power of AI in education isn’t just in individual prompts. It’s in systems. The Limitation of One-Off Prompts Using … Read more
🚀 Apps Script + Gemini Mastery — Issue #18 https://github.com/lsvekis/Google-Apps-Script-Gemini-Projects AI Google Docs Content Refiner Rewrite, summarize, improve, and transform documents automatically using Google Apps Script + Gemini. ⭐ What You Will Build In this issue, you’ll build an AI Content Refiner for Google Docs that can: ✍️ Rewrite content in different tones📄 Summarize long … Read more
🚀 Apps Script + Gemini Mastery — Issue #17 AI Spreadsheet Cleaner + Fixer Automatically clean, standardize, and fix messy spreadsheet data using Google Apps Script + Gemini. ⭐ What You Will Build In this issue, you’ll build an AI Data Cleaner that can: 🧹 Fix inconsistent formatting🔤 Standardize capitalization📅 Normalize dates📊 Clean categories and … Read more