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Introduction to Prompt Engineering

Learn important prompt engineering techniques to build use cases with LLMs.

1h 27m
47 lessons

Last updated: June 2026

Introduction to Prompt Engineering
47 lessons
1h 27m of content
Certificate of completion
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Course Curriculum

10 modules • 47 lessons • 1h 27m total

1
Course Introduction

7 lessons • 5m

Introduction to Prompt Engineering
0:28
About the Instructor
0:41
Course Objectives
0:35
Course Structure
0:56
The tools and environment
0:48
Setting up your Playground
1:46
IMPORTANT UPDATE
2
Introduction to LLMs

7 lessons • 6m

What are LLMs?
0:53
Base LLM vs. Instruction-Tuned LLM
2:08
LLMs and LLM Providers
0:40
Chat LLMs
1:04
Chat LLM Common Use Cases
0:57
How to Leverage LLMs?
0:26
Quiz: Introduction to LLMs
3
Introduction to Prompt Engineering

5 lessons • 6m

What is Prompt Engineering?
1:03
Why Prompt Engineering?
1:07
Elements of a Prompt
2:22
First Basic Prompt
2:24
Quiz: Introduction to Prompt Engineering
4
The Prompt Playground

7 lessons • 18m

Introduction to the OpenAI Playground
1:40
IMPORTANT UPDATE
OpenAI Playground - Roles
4:25
OpenAI Playground - Temperature
3:59
OpenAI Playground - Text Classification
4:28
OpenAI Playground - Role Playing
3:46
Quiz: The Prompt Playground
5
Improving Prompts

7 lessons • 13m

What makes a good prompt?
2:31
Be clear and specific when prompting
1:19
Using delimiters
3:29
Specifying output length
2:26
Output format
1:23
Split Complex Tasks into Subtasks
2:44
Quiz: Improving Prompts
6
Few-shot Prompting

4 lessons • 6m

Introduction to Few-shot prompting
2:16
How many demonstrations?
2:00
Tips for preparing demonstrations
1:57
Quiz: Few-shot Prompting
7
Use Case 1: Information Extraction

4 lessons • 12m

Extracting information
2:17
Zero-shot prompting
3:23
Few-shot prompting
6:30
Quiz: Information Extraction
8
Chain-of-thought Prompting

3 lessons • 8m

Chain-of-thought Prompting
3:18
Movie recommendations with CoT
5:12
Quiz: Chain-of-thought Prompting
9
Use Case 2: Chatbot

1 lessons • 5m

Food Chatbot with CoT
5:54
10
Conclusion

2 lessons • 3m

Recap of the course
1:40
Future of Prompt Engineering
2:17

What Students Say

This course helped me understand how prompts actually affect model outputs. Before this, I was just trial and erroring. Now I approach prompt writing more like debugging with structure and logic.

RJ

Rahul Jain

Co-Founder & CEO at Pixeldust

This course is meticulously designed, reflecting Elvis's deep expertise and attention to detail. The exercises are relevant, engaging, and challenging, making the learning process both enjoyable and highly effective.

P

Praveen

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Elvis expertly ties in the latest developments when answering questions, provides pointers to the foremost resources, and shares his experience working with many of the tools and frameworks out there.

YS

Yevgeniy S. Meyer, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist at Gretel

The best prompt engineering course out there.

T

Taeha

AI Engineer at Marker Inc.

It was clear that Elvis was at the cutting edge of best practices. Not only did we learn about prompting techniques, but all the different tools used across the stack. I've already applied the learnings to R&D at our organization.

H

Hannah

Director of Clinical Product at Moneta Health

Elvis had great examples to depict the importance of the concepts he was teaching! Kudos to his patience running office hours right after a 2.5 hour non-stop class.

A

Apoorva

Machine Learning Engineer at Apple