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Course Overview

This comprehensive course transforms you from a novice to an expert in Large Language Model (LLM) prompting. You’ll master the art and science of communicating with AI systems, learning evidence-based techniques that range from basic prompt construction to sophisticated reasoning frameworks. Through hands-on examples, real-world applications, and progressive skill-building, you’ll develop the ability to design, optimize, and deploy effective prompts for any task—from simple text classification to complex multi-step reasoning problems.

20-25 Hours

Self-paced learning at your own speed

3 Modules

Comprehensive curriculum structure

Hands-On

Practical examples and exercises

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What You’ll Learn

By completing this course, you will be able to:

Design Effective Prompts

Create clear, effective prompts that consistently produce desired outputs from LLMs

Apply In-Context Learning

Master zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompting techniques

Advanced Reasoning Methods

Implement Chain of Thought (CoT) and problem decomposition strategies

Optimize Systematically

Use self-refinement and ensembling techniques to improve prompt performance

Leverage External Tools

Integrate external knowledge through RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Automate & Evaluate

Automate prompt design and measure effectiveness across diverse tasks

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Prerequisites

No prior AI expertise required! This course is designed for learners at all levels.
  • Basic familiarity with AI/LLMs (helpful but not required)
  • Comfort with text-based interfaces
  • Curiosity and willingness to experiment

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Course Structure

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Module 1: Foundations of Prompting

Duration: 3-4 hours Discover what prompting is, why it matters, and how it revolutionizes AI interaction. Build a solid foundation by understanding prompt mechanics, exploring basic templates, and learning core principles.
Learn the prompt-response paradigm, understand how LLMs process inputs, and discover why prompting democratized AI access.
Master prompt components, template structures, formatting patterns, and role assignment techniques.
Explore zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot learning modes with practical examples and pattern recognition.
Apply clarity, specificity, reasoning guidance, and formatting principles to create effective prompts.

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Module 2: Task-Specific Prompting Patterns

Duration: 4-5 hours Apply fundamental concepts across different NLP tasks. Learn proven templates and techniques for classification, information extraction, generation, transformation, and question-answering.
Design reliable classification prompts using constrained output, cloze-style completion, and explicit criteria.
Extract structured information from unstructured text through NER, relation extraction, and template-based patterns.
Generate creative and functional content with constraints, attributes, and multi-step approaches.
Transform text across languages, styles, formats, and reading levels while maintaining fidelity.
Build robust QA systems with structured reasoning, context handling, and uncertainty management.

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Module 3: Advanced Prompting Techniques

Duration: 5-6 hours Elevate your expertise with sophisticated techniques that mirror advanced problem-solving strategies. Master Chain of Thought reasoning, problem decomposition, self-refinement, ensembling, and tool integration.
Implement explicit reasoning steps that dramatically improve accuracy on complex problems.
Break down complex tasks into manageable sub-problems using least-to-most and recursive strategies.
Apply iterative improvement techniques and self-consistency methods for better outputs.
Combine multiple prompts and reasoning paths to improve robustness and accuracy.
Integrate external tools and knowledge sources to ground responses in factual information.

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Learning Approach

Hands-On Examples

Work through real-world scenarios and practical applications

Progressive Building

Build skills incrementally from basics to advanced techniques

Evidence-Based

Learn techniques backed by research and proven in practice

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Ready to Get Started?

Begin Module 1

Start with the foundations of prompting

Explore Resources

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