courses README

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Anthropic courses

Welcome to Anthropic's educational courses. This repository currently contains five courses. We suggest completing the courses in the following order:

  1. Anthropic API fundamentals - teaches the essentials of working with the Claude SDK: getting an API key, working with model parameters, writing multimodal prompts, streaming responses, etc.
  2. Prompt engineering interactive tutorial - a comprehensive step-by-step guide to key prompting techniques. [AWS Workshop version]
  3. Real world prompting - learn how to incorporate prompting techniques into complex, real world prompts. [Google Vertex version]
  4. Prompt evaluations - learn how to write production prompt evaluations to measure the quality of your prompts.
  5. Tool use - teaches everything you need to know to implement tool use successfully in your workflows with Claude.

Please note that these courses often favor our lowest-cost model, Claude 3 Haiku, to keep API costs down for students following along with the materials. Feel free to use other Claude models if you prefer.

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What is this?Anthropic's official set of educational courses on working with Claude: five hands-on courses covering API essentials, prompt engineering, real world prompting, prompt evaluations, and tool use.
Are these video lessons or material I work through myself?Hands-on material: the courses are Jupyter Notebooks that you work through by running code, and the exercises call the live Claude API.
Which course should I start with?Follow the suggested order: Anthropic API fundamentals first, then the prompt engineering interactive tutorial, real world prompting, prompt evaluations, and tool use last.
Do I need my own Anthropic API key to follow along?Yes — the exercises call the real Claude API. The fundamentals course walks you through getting a key and the SDK basics: model parameters, multimodal prompts, and streaming responses.
Is this still being updated?No — the GitHub repository is archived and read-only. The five courses remain available, but no new lessons or maintenance are coming.
Will running the exercises cost me money?Some API spend, kept low by design: the courses usually use Claude 3 Haiku, Anthropic's cheapest model, to keep API costs down — and you can switch to any other Claude model if you prefer.
What does the prompt engineering interactive tutorial cover?It is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to the key prompting techniques — the deep dive on prompting in this course set.
What will I get out of the tool use course?Everything needed to implement tool use successfully in your own workflows with Claude — Anthropic positions it as the complete guide to the topic.
Do any of the courses have cloud-provider versions?Yes — the prompt engineering tutorial has an AWS Workshop version, and the real world prompting course has a Google Vertex version.
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