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.
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.
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.