If you're curious about how IBM Bob works beyond demos and screenshots, the official tutorials are a great place to start.
IBM Bob is positioned as an agentic IDE that supports the full software development lifecycle, helping developers not only write code, but also test, upgrade, improve, and secure applications. What I like about the tutorial series is that it focuses on real development workflows rather than isolated code-generation examples.
The tutorials use Galaxium Travels, a fictional luxury space travel booking application, as the hands-on project. Through this scenario, you get to explore the application architecture, understand the codebase, add new features using Bob, run testing and validation workflows, and improve the application's overall quality and security.
What makes these tutorials useful is the end-to-end perspective. Instead of showing AI as a tool that simply generates snippets, the walkthrough demonstrates how it can fit into the daily activities of a developer across the software lifecycle.
Whether you're evaluating IBM Bob for the first time or looking for practical examples of agentic development in action, the tutorials provide a structured starting point for learning by doing.
Credit: Wayne Leishman
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