Prompt Engineering for Web Developers

Not quite getting the results you want from ChatGPT? Wondering how you can use AI language models to your advantage? Then this course is for you!

If you’ve spent any amount of time with AI language models like ChatGPT and Google Bard, you may have noticed the results can sometimes be, well, frustrating. When it comes to leveraging AI language models, your output is often only as good as your input. In other words, it’s all about learning how best to communicate your desired results. Effective prompt engineering is the secret sauce for getting the most out of AI. There are plenty of resources on prompt engineering out there, but this course focuses specifically on how you can learn the art and science of effective prompt engineering to get the most out of AI language models and ultimately become a better web developer. By the end of the course, you’ll be an awesome prompt engineer with the skills to transform AI language models like ChatGPT into the ultimate coding assistant and pair programming partner. You’ll be equipped to leverage AI to plan, learn, generate, debug, document, and explore code better than you ever have before. And to make sure it sticks, there will be plenty of challenges and suggestions for further learning along the way! Ready? Let’s engineer some prompts! Treasure Porth is the instructor for this course.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Welcome to the Course!
3. Intro: What is Prompt Engineering?
4. Prompt Engineering Basics, Part 1
5. Prompt Engineering Basics, Part 2
6. Quiz: Prompt Engineering Basics
7. Control the length and format of GPT’s responses
8. Challenge: Haiku-ish Generator
9. Break Tasks Into Smaller Steps
10. Quiz: Break Tasks into Smaller Steps
11. Prompt Iteratively: Prompt, Evaluate, Repeat
12. Optimize prompts
13. Challenge: Build a Simple Modal with an Optimized Prompt
14. Role-based prompting
15. Practice: Plan an App with Role-Based Prompting
16. Prompt with Examples
17. Challenge: Seltzer Flavor Generator
18. Solution: Seltzer Flavor Generator
19. Beware Hallucinating!
20. Recap: Prompt Engineering
21. Intro: AI Assisted Coding
22. Generate code with pseudocode
23. Generate code using a pseudo language
24. Challenge: Generate a Form with Pseudo Language
25. Generate Edge Cases
26. Practice: Test a function and generate edge cases
27. Debugging and Error Messages
28. Convert Code
29. Challenge: Convert Code
30. Document Code
31. Study Web Development via Prompt Engineering, Pt 1
32. Study Web Development via Prompt Engineering, Pt 2
33. Review and Practice: Study Web Development
34. Explore APIs with Bard
35. Get Help with Git and Github
36. Get Help Deploying
37. When to Step Back from AI
38. Recap: AI-Assisted Coding
39. Intro: Using AI Language Models for Job Search
40. Generate, Learn and Practice DS/Algo Problems, Part 1
41. Generate, Learn and Practice DS/Algo Problems, Part 2
42. Challenge: Solving Classic FizzBuzz with ChatGPT
43. Review and Analyze Code
44. Practice: Review and Analyze a Code Solution
45. Get Live Code Interview Advice and Practice
46. Job Search – Get Help Writing Job Search Docs
47. Practice Interview Questions
48. Congrats, Prompt Engineers