Prompt Engineering Essentials

Curriculum

3 modules

1. 1

   Foundations of LLMs & prompting

   • How large language models think6 min
   • Anatomy of a strong prompt7 min
   • Role, task, context, format8 min
2. 2

   Core prompting patterns

   • Zero-shot vs few-shot8 min
   • Chain-of-thought reasoning9 min
   • Structured output & JSON8 min
3. 3

   Reliability, evaluation & safety

   Includes hands-on lab
   • Measuring and testing prompts9 min
   • Prompt hacking and defenses8 min
   • Hands-on lab: write your first prompt15 min

Open sources & licenses

This curriculum is an original outline informed by these openly-licensed resources.

• Prompt Engineering Playbook (K. Suri)MIT
• Anthropic — Prompt Engineering & Tool Use coursesAnthropic course materials
• DAIR.AI Prompt Engineering GuideMIT
• Microsoft — Prompt Engineering articlesCC BY 4.0