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A prompt is just an instruction, but most prompts fail. Why? Lack of context, vague goals, no examples, no structure. This course teaches you to write prompts that consistently work, from chain-of-thought to few-shot, across Claude, GPT, and Gemini.

1. 01

   Start here: what this course is about

   Welcome to Prompt Engineering

   Read first. ~3 minutes.

2. 02

   Start here: what is prompt engineering?

   Prompt engineering overview - Claude API Docs↗

   Anthropic's official intro. The mental model: prompts are instructions, not magic spells.

3. 03

   The basics: clarity, structure, examples

   OpenAI Prompt Engineering Guide↗

   OpenAI's official guide. How to write instructions, when to add examples, how to use system prompts.

4. 04

   Hands-on: 9 chapters with exercises

   Anthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial↗

   Official Anthropic teaching material. Practice each technique in an interactive playground.

5. 05

   Cross-provider patterns

   One-Stop Developer Guide to Prompt Engineering Across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google↗

   Same techniques work across GPT, Claude, Gemini. The differences are smaller than they look.

6. 06

   Few-shot prompting

   Few shot Prompting and Chain of Thought Prompting↗

   Show the model examples of what you want. Often more effective than describing it.

7. 07

   Chain-of-thought: the source paper

   Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models (Wei et al)↗

   The original Google research paper that introduced chain-of-thought. 15 to 40 percent improvement on math and reasoning.

8. 08

   ReAct: reasoning + acting

   Prompt Engineering Guide: Chain-of-Thought, ReAct & Few-Shot Techniques 2026↗

   When the model needs to use tools. The pattern that powers agentic prompts.

9. 09

   Advanced techniques: self-consistency, tree of thoughts

   Advanced Prompt Engineering: Self-Consistency, Tree-of-Thoughts, RAG↗

   Beyond chain-of-thought. Self-consistency adds 17.9 percent on GSM8K. Tree-of-thoughts explores reasoning branches.

10. 10

    Mastering prompt engineering (full guide)

    Prompt Engineering Guide 2026 - Analytics Vidhya↗

    Comprehensive walkthrough. Testing, iteration, evals. Treat prompts like production code.

11. 11

    State of the art: every technique in 2026

    Every Prompt Engineering Technique Explained: The Research-Backed Guide 2026↗

    Research-backed catalog of every modern prompting technique. The 2026 toolkit, with the papers cited for each technique.

12. 12

    Closing: what to take with you

    Closing: Prompts as a Discipline

    Wrap-up. ~3 minutes.

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