prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial README

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Welcome to Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial

Course introduction and goals

This course is intended to provide you with a comprehensive step-by-step understanding of how to engineer optimal prompts within Claude.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Course structure and content

This course is structured to allow you many chances to practice writing and troubleshooting prompts yourself. The course is broken up into 9 chapters with accompanying exercises, as well as an appendix of even more advanced methods. It is intended for you to work through the course in chapter order.

Each lesson has an "Example Playground" area at the bottom where you are free to experiment with the examples in the lesson and see for yourself how changing prompts can change Claude's responses. There is also an answer key.

Note: This tutorial uses our smallest, fastest, and cheapest model, Claude 3 Haiku. Anthropic has two other models, Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus, which are more intelligent than Haiku, with Opus being the most intelligent.

This tutorial also exists on Google Sheets using Anthropic's Claude for Sheets extension. We recommend using that version as it is more user friendly.

When you are ready to begin, go to 01_Basic Prompt Structure to proceed.

Table of Contents

Each chapter consists of a lesson and a set of exercises.

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

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What is this?This is Anthropic's official interactive tutorial for learning prompt engineering with Claude, teaching how to write effective prompts through lessons and hands-on exercises.
Is this a set of Jupyter notebooks or something else?It's a collection of Jupyter notebooks, one per chapter, each containing a lesson and exercises with an 'Example Playground' to experiment live, plus an answer key.
How do I start working through the course?Work through the chapters in order starting from Chapter 1: Basic Prompt Structure, running each notebook's lesson and exercises; it's also available as a Google Sheets version via the Claude for Sheets extension, which Anthropic recommends as more user-friendly.
Which Claude model does the tutorial use?It uses Claude 3 Haiku, Anthropic's smallest, fastest, and cheapest model at the time, rather than the more capable Sonnet or Opus models.
Who is this course for?Anyone wanting a structured path from beginner to advanced prompt engineering with Claude, from basic prompt structure up to building complex industry-specific prompts.
How is the course structured?It has 9 chapters grouped into Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels, each with a lesson and exercises, plus an appendix covering advanced methods like prompt chaining, tool use, and search/retrieval.
What topics does the advanced appendix cover?It goes beyond standard prompting into chaining prompts, tool use, and search and retrieval techniques.
Are there real-world use case exercises?Yes, Chapter 9 includes building complex prompts from scratch for use cases like a chatbot, legal services, financial services, and coding.
What will I be able to do after finishing the course?Master the basic structure of good prompts, recognize common failure modes and 80/20 fixes, understand Claude's strengths and weaknesses, and build strong prompts from scratch for common use cases.
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