Five Best Courses on Prompt Engineering for Engineers

Learn Prompt Engineering Best Practices

rachelle palmer
2 min readAug 28, 2024
my life right now.

If you search this topic on Google, the first result is from Purdue. And while I’m sure the Purdue course on prompt engineering is awesome, it’s 16 weeks long, and I don’t have time for that. This set me on a path to finding the best courses on prompt engineering, prompt engineering best practices, etc… but in one day. Most of the other results are old articles (at least a year!) and I wanted something that is up to date with the latest LLMs and research, because I need to train more than a hundred engineers on this topic within the next six weeks.

If you’re an engineering manager who needs to train your team, or you’re an individual who is searching for a quick course that will enable you immediately, on demand, and not cost a fortune, this post is for you. After combing through blogs, reddit threads, forums, google search results, and asking friends, here’s the list. It’s only 5, because most courses out there are not for engineers. They are “GenAI for everyone! GenAI for marketing!” which are frankly a waste of your time. If I find more, this list will get longer.

Five Prompt Engineering Courses for Software Developers

  1. 1 hour course on Prompt Engineering (free, absolute beginner)
  2. Advanced Prompt Engineering course (1 week)
  3. Learn How to Use AI for Coding (free, 1 hour, beginner)
  4. Building Systems with the ChatGPT API (free, 1 hour, intermediate)
  5. Udemy course on Prompt Engineering ($120, 16 hours) covers langchain and langraph and RAG

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rachelle palmer
rachelle palmer

Written by rachelle palmer

Data Informed Decision Maker. Product Leader@MongoDB. Mostly human.