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Prompt Engineering for Developers
Learn to communicate effectively with LLMs. From core principles and iterative refinement through summarisation, inference, chatbot construction, and prompt safety. Based on DeepLearning.AI's "ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers" and Google's Prompting Essentials certificate.
- 10 hours
- 30 lessons
- 6 modules
- updated April 2026
Try it before you sign up
Read a full lesson and answer 3 questions from the Module 1 quiz. No account needed.
Base LLMs vs Instruction-Tuned LLMs
6 modules, 30 lessons
Module 1 is free — lessons, hands-on walkthrough and quiz.
- readBase LLMs vs Instruction-Tuned LLMs12 min
- videoChatGPT Explained in 5 Minutes8 min
- readSetting Up the OpenAI API in Python10 min
- hands-onLab: Your First API Call20 min
- quizQuiz: LLM Fundamentals10 min
Built by the CloudaQube team
No celebrity instructor — here is exactly what goes into the course instead.
- 01 6 guided hands-on walkthroughs you run in a real environment.
- 02 6 module quizzes — every answer comes with an explanation.
- 03 Last updated April 2026.
- 04 Any module can become a hands-on lab in Labs Studio.
What you'll be able to do
- 01 Write clear, specific prompts using delimiters, structured output, and step-by-step reasoning
- 02 Apply zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought techniques to developer tasks
- 03 Use the TCREI framework for iterative prompt development
- 04 Build a multi-turn chatbot using the Chat Completions API
- 05 Mitigate prompt injection and hallucination risks in production
- 06 Generate, summarise, classify, and transform text programmatically
- — Basic Python programming
- — No prior AI experience required
Before you start
How long does it take?
About 10 hours of lessons, videos and hands-on walkthroughs across 6 modules.
What’s free?
Module 1 in full — lessons, hands-on walkthrough and quiz — with no card required. Any paid plan (from $8.99/mo) unlocks all 6 modules, and starts with a 14-day free trial.
Start the course with Module 1 free.
No card required. Unlock every module from $8.99/mo when you’re ready.