--- title: Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course description: Sebastian Raschka shares a comprehensive video course series on building Large Language Models from scratch using Python and PyTorch. The course covers seven... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-llms-from-the-ground-up-a-complete-course-zl0o8ruca twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course | daily.dev og:description: Sebastian Raschka shares a comprehensive video course series on building Large Language Models from scratch using Python and PyTorch. The course covers seven... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-llms-from-the-ground-up-a-complete-course-zl0o8ruca og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZL0o8RUcA.png og:image:alt: Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course **[Sebastian Raschka](https://daily.dev/sources/sebastianraschka)** · 5 min read · 420 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary Sebastian Raschka shares a comprehensive video course series on building Large Language Models from scratch using Python and PyTorch. The course covers seven key areas: environment setup, text data preprocessing and tokenization, attention mechanisms implementation, LLM architecture coding, pretraining on unlabeled data, classification fine-tuning, and instruction fine-tuning. The content serves as supplementary material to his book 'Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)' and emphasizes hands-on learning through implementation rather than using pre-built frameworks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sunrising** · 12 upvotes > You just ruined various people's summer, you know? **@franmamlops** · 1 upvotes > That's a great insight! **@domidex** · 0 upvotes > Now I have got no excuse start learning python. Thanks man! **@jasongallagher** · 0 upvotes > This looks amazing, thanks for sharing! **@kyoukhana** · 0 upvotes > Looks Great, But why not build it Rust, Most LLMS are in Python ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#deep-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/deep-learning), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#pytorch](https://daily.dev/tags/pytorch) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/coding-llms-from-the-ground-up-a-complete-course-zl0o8ruca) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/coding-llms-from-the-ground-up-a-complete-course-zl0o8ruca","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/coding-llms-from-the-ground-up-a-complete-course-zl0o8ruca"},"datePublished":"2025-06-10T20:07:47.384Z","dateModified":"2025-06-10T20:08:11.936Z","description":"Sebastian Raschka shares a comprehensive video course series on building Large Language Models from scratch using Python and PyTorch. 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