Prompt Engineering for Beginners (freeCodeCamp)
- Course audio
- Course audio: English
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 13 lessons · 0.7 hours
What you'll be able to do
- Write clear prompts with context and examples
- Spot and reduce AI hallucinations
About this course
A short course from freeCodeCamp, taught by Ania Kubów, on getting useful answers from AI chat tools: what prompt engineering is, a quick tour of AI, machine learning and language models, the prompt engineering mindset, using GPT-4, best practices, zero-shot and few-shot prompts, AI hallucinations, and text embeddings. About 40 minutes across 13 chapters. A good first step before using AI tools at work or in freelance projects.
Before you start: None
Syllabus
13 lessons · 41:36 in total
- 1Introduction1:31
- 2What is Prompt Engineering?0:46
- 3Introduction to AI1:35
- 4Why is Machine learning useful?2:44
- 5Linguistics1:28
- 6Language Models6:31
- 7Prompt Engineering Mindset1:03
- 8Using GPT-45:03
- 9Best practices10:39
- 10Zero shot and few shot prompts3:46
- 11AI hallucinations1:37
- 12Vectors/text embeddings3:45
- 13Recap1:08
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Lessons last checked Oct 2026. Course summary and lesson structure by Sabaq.
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