API documentation, READMEs, tutorials, conceptual guides, style guides, and docs-as-code with MkDocs or Docusaurus. The technical writing course for engineers who want their documentation to be useful, not just present.
This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on technical writing you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.
This course is built by engineers who ship technical writing systems in production. It reflects how these tools actually behave at scale.
Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. Understanding comes through doing.
Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on technical writing available.
Each day is designed for about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No live classes, no quizzes.
Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.
The developer documentation mindset (task-oriented, code-first, minimal), the difference between reference, tutorial, how-to, and explanation (Diátaxis framework), information architecture, and the most common developer docs mistakes.
The anatomy of a great README (badges, installation, quickstart, configuration, contributing), writing a Getting Started that works for a new user with zero context, and the README antipatterns that make open-source repos unusable.
Writing endpoint descriptions developers trust, request/response examples in multiple languages, error code documentation, OpenAPI spec as source of truth, and generating API docs from code comments with tools like Swagger and Mintlify.
The learning tutorial vs the task how-to — why conflating them fails readers. Writing tutorials that actually teach, step validation, expected output at each step, and the code example standards that make tutorials reproducible.
MkDocs Material, Docusaurus, version-controlled docs, CI linting with Vale, the Google Developer Style Guide as a baseline, writing AI-assisted docs and maintaining quality, and building a documentation contribution workflow for engineering teams.
Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.
Developer-focused technical writing courses covering documentation structure, API docs, and the writing habits that make documentation readable.
Building documentation sites with MkDocs Material — the most popular docs-as-code tool for developer documentation.
Writing API reference documentation with OpenAPI spec, generating interactive docs with Swagger UI, and Mintlify.
Writing README files that turn GitHub visitors into users — structure, tone, quickstart, and the content that makes the difference.
The four types of documentation (tutorials, how-tos, reference, explanation) and why separating them produces better docs.
The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.
The Material for MkDocs theme — the standard docs-as-code platform for developer documentation. Beautiful, searchable, and deploys to GitHub Pages.
Facebook's documentation platform used by React, Redux, and Jest. React-based, supports MDX, and has the best versioning support for API documentation.
Prose linter that enforces style guide rules in CI. The most practical tool for enforcing consistent terminology and style across large documentation sets.
Reference materials for the Diátaxis documentation framework — the four-quadrant model that structures every type of developer documentation.
You wrote the code. Now you need to document it. This course gives you the structure and tools to write documentation that saves your users' time instead of wasting it.
Great developer experience starts with great documentation. This course covers the documentation strategy and tooling that the best developer platforms use.
Modern developer documentation lives in Git and deploys with CI/CD. This course covers the tools and workflows that technical writers need to work alongside engineering teams.
The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers technical communication and documentation in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).
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