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Introduction to Prompt Engineering

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

1h 27m
39 lessons

Last updated: January 2026

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

10 modules • 39 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
Setting up the OpenAI Playground
2
Introduction to LLMs

6 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
3
Introduction to Prompt Engineering

4 lessons • 6m

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

5 lessons • 18m

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

6 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
6
Few-shot Prompting

3 lessons • 6m

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

3 lessons • 12m

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

2 lessons • 8m

Chain-of-thought Prompting
3:18
Movie recommendations with CoT
5:12
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.”

R

Rahul Jain

Co-Founder & CEO at Pixeldust