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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**:
- Master the basic structure of a good prompt

- Master the basic structure of a good prompt
- Recognize common failure modes and learn the '80/20' techniques to address them
- Understand Claude's strengths and weaknesses
- Build strong prompts from scratch for common use cases

## 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**.
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](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jIxjzUWG-6xBVIa2ay6yDpLyeuOh_hR_ZB75a47KX_E/edit?usp=sharing).

Note: This tutorial uses our smallest, fastest, and cheapest model, Claude 3 Haiku. Anthropic has [two other models](https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/models-overview), 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](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19jzLgRruG9kjUQNKtCg1ZjdD6l6weA6qRXG5zLIAhC8/edit?usp=sharing). We recommend using that version as it is more user friendly.*
_This tutorial also exists on [Google Sheets using Anthropic's Claude for Sheets extension](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19jzLgRruG9kjUQNKtCg1ZjdD6l6weA6qRXG5zLIAhC8/edit?usp=sharing). 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.
When you are ready to begin, go to [`00_Tutorial_How-To`](Anthropic%201P/00_Tutorial_How-To.ipynb) to get set up. Then head to the first lesson, [`01_Basic_Prompt_Structure`](Anthropic%201P/01_Basic_Prompt_Structure.ipynb), to start learning!

## Table of Contents

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

### Beginner

- **Chapter 1:** Basic Prompt Structure

- **Chapter 2:** Being Clear and Direct
- **Chapter 2:** Being Clear and Direct

- **Chapter 3:** Assigning Roles

### Intermediate
### Intermediate

- **Chapter 4:** Separating Data from Instructions

- **Chapter 5:** Formatting Output & Speaking for Claude
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- **Chapter 7:** Using Examples

### Advanced

- **Chapter 8:** Avoiding Hallucinations

- **Chapter 9:** Building Complex Prompts (Industry Use Cases)
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- **Appendix:** Beyond Standard Prompting
- Chaining Prompts
- Tool Use
- Search & Retrieval
- Search & Retrieval