Practical Prompt Engineering

The Art and Science of Prompting

Welcome to Practical Prompt Engineering, a course designed to transform you from a basic AI user into a masterful AI collaborator. While large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini are incredibly powerful, their true potential is unlocked by the quality of the prompts you give them. This course will go beyond simple commands and teach you the advanced techniques you need to get consistent, accurate, and creative results from any LLM.

What You’ll Learn

• Core Skills & Concepts: You’ll learn the fundamental principles of crafting effective prompts, including how to use clarity, context, and constraints. You’ll also understand the difference between zero-shot and few-shot prompting.
• Advanced Prompting Techniques: You will master advanced methods to get precise results. This includes using role-playing to guide the AI’s persona, using delimiters to structure complex requests, and controlling the output format (e.g., as a table or JSON).
• Complex Problem Solving: You’ll learn to break down big problems into smaller, manageable steps through task decomposition. The course will teach you to chain prompts together, using the output of one prompt as the input for the next, to create multi-stage workflows.
• Ethical AI & Best Practices: You’ll gain an understanding of how to use AI responsibly. This includes learning to design prompts that avoid bias and managing data sensitivity.
• Hands-On Application: You’ll apply everything you’ve learned in a real-world project simulation, giving you practical experience in solving a complex problem with advanced prompting techniques.