Ollama Essentials – Getting Started

Ollama Essentials — Getting Started (20 min, self-paced)

For first contact with Ollama: what it is, how to install it, the three ways to talk to it (command line, REST API, SDKs), managing models on disk versus in memory, and building a customized model from a Modelfile. Eight formative questions along the way, an 8-question final assessment, 75% to pass.

Sources: official Ollama documentation (README, Quickstart, CLI Reference, Modelfile Reference).

Different from Ollama Essentials — Familiarization Course: that one assumes Ollama is already installed and goes deeper on the context-window setting and cloud/coding-tool integrations. This one stays at the general introduction level — installation through tweaking your first customized model.