The education arm of Gizem Soruyor

I asked these
questions too.
Now I pass the answers on.

I run live workshops for people learning technology from scratch — small groups, plain language, step by step. For those who prefer their own pace there are one-to-one lessons, and for teams a closed day spent on the team's own work.

See the workshops → How it works
  • Live and online — the recording is yours
  • Open workshop: groups of 10–14
  • One-to-one: by the hour, built around you
  • Corporate: a day on your team's own work
Gizem Güney, portrait
Gizem Güney Backend-leaning full-stack developer

Instructor Gizem Güney Software developer

What she has done →
  • école 42 Software engineering · Paris
  • Software in production Systems that are genuinely in use
  • Artificial intelligence AI systems that work together
  • TÜBİTAK project AI-generated content detection · approved
  • Workshop experience with a 20-student community lead
How it works

Three steps. Nothing more.

  1. 01

    Pick the one that fits

    There are three workshops and each answers a different question. Every page also states plainly who it is not for — I do not want you paying for the wrong workshop.

  2. 02

    Join live and ask

    The group is small because the point is not watching, it is asking. There are few enough of us that you can stop and say “again, please”. The recording stays with you.

  3. 03

    Keep what you made

    Every workshop ends with something real: a page that is live, an application that runs, or a workflow you built into your own job. Not a certificate — work.

First Contact with Code

From a blank screen to live, in four weeks

A development screen made up of a code editor, live preview and terminal; it moves through four stages from an empty file to a published page. ilk-sayfam index.html style.css app.js 123456789101112 <!doctype html> <html lang="tr"> <head> <title>Merhaba</title> </head> <body> <h1>Hi, I am Gizem</h1> <p>This is my first page.</p> <button>Click me</button> </body> </html> body { font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; background: #FBF8F6; color: #1A1614; } h1 { color: #C41262; } button { background: #C41262; border-radius: 999px; } const btn = document.querySelector("button"); let sayi = 0; btn.addEventListener("click", () => { sayi++; btn.textContent = `Clicked: ${sayi}`; }); TERMINAL $ git add . $ git commit -m "${sh.commitMesaji}" [main 3f9a1c2] ${sh.commitMesaji} $ git push origin main ✓ Live → your-first-page.dev your-first-page.dev empty page Hi, I am Gizem This is my first page. Click me Hi, I am Gizem This is my first page. Click me Poppins · #C41262 · border-radius: 999px Live
01/04
Week 1

A blank screen and a cursor

You open a code editor for the first time. Terminal, files, browser — in five minutes we settle how they connect to each other.

Week 2

The skeleton of the page appears

You build the skeleton of your content with HTML. The preview on the right is bare and ugly — but it is a page you wrote, and you know why every part of it is there.

Week 3

Colour arrives, the button works

You dress the page with CSS and make it move with JavaScript. The counter going up when you press the button — the first genuine "I made this" moment.

Week 4

And it is live

You save it with Git and push it to the internet with one command. You end up with a link you can share. The workshop ends here; your work starts here.

Workshops

Three workshops currently open

All live and online. Registration closes when the places fill, and a waiting list opens for the next round.

Absolute beginner Live online

First Contact with Code

4 weeks · 1 session per week · 90 min

For someone who has never written a line of code, from the very beginning. We start with what a computer actually does and finish four weeks later with your own small page, live on the internet.

$79 ≈ 3.783 ₺
12 places
No technical background needed Live online

Putting AI to Work

2 weeks · 3 sessions · 90 min

For people who opened ChatGPT and thought "…and now what?". Over three sessions we take a real task from your own job and solve it end to end with AI — and learn where it cannot be trusted.

$39 ≈ 1.867 ₺
14 places
Absolute beginner Live online · weekend

Your First App with AI

1 day · 2 sessions · 5 hours total

A single-day weekend workshop. We turn the small idea in your head into a real application using AI-assisted tools, and you share the link before the day is over.

$19 ≈ 910 ₺
10 places
Said up front

What you will not find here

The easiest thing to do when selling education is to overstate it. So I am writing down what is not here — decide accordingly.

  • A promise of "get a job in four weeks". These workshops are a beginning, not a career guarantee.
  • An expert posture. I write software for a living, but I am not an expert in every subject; my actual job is putting what I learn in the right order. I will tell you where you need to go deeper, and I say "I do not know" when I do not.
  • A crowded room. Places are kept small, because the real value is in being able to ask.
  • Fake urgency. There is no "only 2 places left" counter; registration closes when the places genuinely fill.
  • Invented numbers. I do not use a single figure on this site that I cannot verify — no student counts, no satisfaction percentages.

For your team, using your own work

We also run the same workshops as closed sessions for organisations — the content is rebuilt around your work and the examples come from your own processes.

Corporate workshops →
Who teaches

Gizem in the workshops, Uğur on the corporate side

They have worked together on several projects and training programmes. The split is just as clear here: founder Gizem runs the workshops; Uğur delivers the corporate team training.

Gizem Güney

Gizem Güney

Founder · runs the workshops

Gizem Güney, 23. On the "Gizem Soruyor" channel she interviews people from technology and business — and she also builds software. The combination of the two is the whole workshop: most subjects are not hard when explained in the right order, it is just that nobody bothers to start from the beginning.

  • She does for a living the thing she teaches: backend services, data models and interfaces — systems running in production, not sample projects.
  • AI is not a buzzword for her: she built the interface of a platform that compares AI models, and wrote the infrastructure behind a content system where several AIs work together.
  • She studies software engineering at école 42 in Paris and holds a degree in Management Information Systems — so she sees both the code and the business side.
"When I do not understand something, I stop the guest and say ‘again, but from the very beginning’. That is exactly what the workshops are."
What she has done →
Uğur İnal

Uğur İnal

Partner · corporate team training

Uğur İnal combines more than a decade of financial operations and business development experience with building AI systems; he has been putting large language models into production since 2022. He delivers the corporate team training and fields the questions from the management side.

  • He builds AI systems in production rather than on slides: platforms where autonomous agents run for vertical industries.
  • Co-founder and interim CFO/CIO of Fjordland Group in New Zealand; he ran the finance side of a Series A round and set the strategy for the Digital Twin infrastructure.
  • He leads technical execution at Waka Research — an R&D company bringing applied science such as satellite imagery, computer vision and robotics into the field.
Corporate training →
Frequently asked

You were probably going to ask this

I have never written code — is it really from zero?

Yes. "First Contact with Code" starts with how a computer runs a program at all. There are no prerequisites; a computer with an internet connection is enough.

Why should I listen to you?

Because I do the thing I teach. I build software: at AkademiQ.AI I built the interface of a platform that compares AI models and the infrastructure behind a content-producing AI system; at Pawlo I built the back-end services and the database structure. I study software engineering at école 42 in Paris. What I have done is written out here.

What if I cannot make a live session?

The recording is shared and it stays with you. But honestly, the value of the workshop is in asking questions live; if you cannot attend any session, this format may not be for you.

Do you give a certificate?

I can issue a certificate of attendance, but I would not claim it carries weight in a job application. The real thing you leave with is the work you did and published.

What happens to my money if I change my mind?

Your right of withdrawal under distance selling rules is preserved. The conditions are written out on the Refunds and withdrawal page.

If your question is not about a workshop — "where do I start", "which language", "is there any point learning while AI exists" — I wrote the answers in the Guide. No sales pitch, just answers. Go to the Guide →

All the questions →
If you are unsure

Let us work out which one fits you

If you cannot decide which of the three workshops to join, do not guess. Write two sentences about what you want to do — and if none of them suits you, I will say that too, and point you where to look instead.

  • I read the form myself — no automated replies.
  • If the places are full, I put you down for the next round.
  • Corporate and team training goes through the same place.
Ask a question → See the workshops