Anthropic's nine-chapter tutorial with exercises on prompt structure, roles, separating data from instructions, step-by-step thinking, few-shot examples, avoiding hallucinations, and building complex prompts. The definitive hands-on resource for anyone building with Claude.
Who it's for
Anyone using AI tools daily; developers building on model APIs. This is an intermediate course in Prompt Engineering, running about 9 chapters, self-paced.
Cost at a glance
Free. Running exercises requires a Claude API key (pay-as-you-go usage) or Amazon Bedrock; a Google Sheets version is also offered.
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