Hi there! 👋 This hands-on course will teach you how to write better prompts for Claude, step by step. Whether you’re brand new to prompt engineering or just want to improve, you’re in the right place.
By the end of this course, you’ll know how to:
- Understand what makes a prompt effective
- Avoid common mistakes people make when prompting
- Learn Claude’s strengths and limits
- Create strong, reliable prompts for real-life situations
This course is made up of 9 short chapters with exercises to help you practice what you learn. Each chapter builds on the previous one, so it’s best to go in order.
You’ll find an “Example Playground” at the end of each chapter. That’s where you can test out the prompts and see how Claude responds when you change things.
👉 There’s also an answer key here to check your work.
Note: This tutorial uses Claude 3 Haiku, which is fast and budget-friendly. There are also more powerful models like Sonnet and Opus — learn more about them here.
✨ Prefer Google Sheets? You can try this same tutorial using the Claude for Sheets version. It’s even easier to use!
To begin, open the first file: 01_Basic Prompt Structure.
Each chapter includes a short lesson and practice prompts.
- Chapter 1: Basic Prompt Structure
- Chapter 2: Being Clear and Direct
- Chapter 3: Assigning Roles
- Chapter 4: Separating Data from Instructions
- Chapter 5: Formatting Output & Speaking for Claude
- Chapter 6: Precognition (Step-by-Step Thinking)
- Chapter 7: Using Examples
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Chapter 8: Avoiding Hallucinations
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Chapter 9: Complex Prompts for Real-World Tasks
- Create Chatbots
- Legal Use Cases
- Exercise: Financial Prompts
- Exercise: Coding Prompts
- 🎉 Wrap-Up and What’s Next
- Chaining Prompts
- Using Tools
- Search & Retrieval