Portmint Learn with Pip
Short, friendly courses taught by Pip — start free, learn at your own pace, and earn a verifiable certificate. No prior tech knowledge needed.Foundations Start here — the big ideas, explained from zero.
AI, Explained for Business Owners
A plain-English guide to what AI and chat assistants really are, and what they can and cannot do for your business.
Can AI Do Things for You? Assistants vs Agents, Plainly
A plain-English guide to the difference between an AI that answers and an AI that acts — so you know which one you actually need, and what it takes to use each safely.
Design Basics: Layout, Type & Color
Plain-English design for non-designers — visual hierarchy, alignment, whitespace, picking fonts and colors, and contrast that stays readable.
How Apps Are Made
A plain-English tour of how phone, desktop, and web apps are built and shipped — the front, the back, and the app store.
How Search Engines Work
A plain-English tour of how search engines find pages, sort them, and answer you — plus a calm, honest take on SEO.
How Websites Are Made
A plain-English tour of what a web page really is — structure, style, behavior, the browser, and going live.
Inside a Computer
A plain-English tour of what's really inside your computer — bits, the chip that thinks, memory, storage, and what "fast" means.
The Internet, from Scratch
A plain-English voyage through how the internet really works, from one click down a wire to the whole web.
Programming, from Zero
A plain-English introduction to what code is and the handful of building blocks every program is made from.
Start Here: The Absolute-Beginner's Path to Using AI
A warm, jargon-free first course for business owners and their teams. Open AI for the very first time, learn to ask for what you want, and put it to work this week.
Why AI Forgets You — Context & Memory, Explained
A plain-English guide to why AI chat assistants forget what you told them, what "context" really means, and how to work with their memory instead of against it.
Working with Data: From Spreadsheets to Insight
Turn a messy spreadsheet into a clear answer — clean, sort, filter, summarize, and chart your data to answer real questions.
Practical Go deeper — hands-on skills you can actually use.
How Apps Talk: APIs, Plainly
A plain-English tour of how apps ask each other for things — the menu, the order, the reply, plus keys and rate limits.
Talking to Your Computer: the Command Line
A friendly, no-fear intro to the terminal and the handful of everyday commands that let you tell your computer what to do by typing.
How Money Moves Online
A plain-English tour of online payments — cards, processors, checkout, fees, chargebacks, and staying safe with your money.
How Networks & the Internet Work
A hands-on, plain-English tour of how your devices actually talk — Wi-Fi, IP, DNS, packets, servers, and loading a page.
Staying Safe Online
Plain-English cybersecurity basics for everyday people and small businesses — passwords, scams, encryption, backups, and safe habits.
Talking to AI So It Actually Helps
Practical, no-jargon prompting — how to ask AI for what you want and get genuinely useful answers for real work.
Saving Your Work: Git & Version Control
A plain-English guide to version control — why it exists, commits as save-points, branches, and how to safely undo, told as writing a book.
Where Data Lives: Databases Explained
From spreadsheets to databases, in plain English — tables, rows, keys, relationships, and what a query really is.
For business Put AI to work in a real business.
AI and the Law: Privacy, Disclosure & Customer Data for Small Business
A plain-English guide to using AI in your business without getting into legal trouble — what to disclose, how to handle customer data, and the simple habits that keep you safe.
How to Choose an AI Tool or Vendor Without Getting Burned
A plain-English buyer's guide for small business owners — how to size up an AI tool or vendor, ask the right questions, read a contract, and avoid the expensive mistakes.
Getting Found Locally — Google Business Profile, Maps & Reviews
A plain-English, do-it-today guide to showing up on Google Maps and search, winning reviews honestly, and turning "near me" searches into customers through your door.
Never Miss a Customer: After-Hours & Phone Coverage Explained
A plain-English guide to catching the calls, texts, and messages that arrive after you close — and turning quiet hours into booked work instead of lost customers.
Turn Customer Reviews into Your Best Marketing
A plain-English guide for local business owners to earn more reviews, reply to them well, and turn what customers already say into marketing that brings in more customers — with AI doing the heavy lifting.
Smarter Scheduling: Booking, Calendars & Reminders
A plain-English guide to running your bookings, calendar, and reminders so you stop playing phone tag, stop double-booking, and stop losing money to no-shows.
What AI Is Worth — Costs, Budgets & Payback for Owners
A plain-English money course for business owners — what AI actually costs, how to budget for it, and how to tell whether it is paying for itself.