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Prompting Mastery

A 55-minute deep dive for power users and developers — structured outputs, chain-of-thought, few-shot, and the prompt library habits that compound.

55 min·8 chapters·Individual contributor · Manager · Technical practitioner·Free

Last updated: 2026-05-21

What you'll learn

By the end of this course you'll be able to:

The five principles that separate amateur prompts from professional ones
How to force structured outputs (JSON, tables, schemas) reliably
When chain-of-thought reasoning helps — and when it slows you down
Few-shot patterns that improve consistency across runs
How to evaluate outputs without "vibe-checking" them
Building a prompt library your team will actually reuse

Who this is for

Power users, analysts, and developers who already use ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot daily and want to move from ad-hoc prompts to repeatable, evaluable patterns. Especially valuable for teams in GCC, India, and SEA that are operationalizing prompts as part of internal tools or shared playbooks.

Curriculum

8 chapters · 2 hands-on exercises · capstone challenge

Each chapter ends with the learning objectives ticked off. Quizzes are auto-graded with feedback; exercises are open-ended and produce artifacts you can take to your team.

1. Prompting principles

7 min

Apply the five core prompting principles to any task
Spot the three habits that produce inconsistent outputs

2. Structured outputs (JSON)

7 minQUIZ

Design prompts that return parseable JSON every time
Handle schema drift and validation failures gracefully

3. Chain-of-thought reasoning

7 min

Apply chain-of-thought where it genuinely helps
Avoid the over-reasoning trap that adds latency without accuracy

4. Few-shot patterns

7 minEXERCISE

Design few-shot examples that generalize, not memorize
Spot when few-shot makes outputs worse, not better

5. Evaluating outputs

7 minQUIZ

Build a lightweight eval set for any recurring prompt
Move from vibe-checking to repeatable scoring

6. Prompt libraries and reuse

6 min

Design a prompt library structure that scales with the team
Apply versioning and ownership to prompts like code

7. Edge cases and adversarial prompts

7 minEXERCISE

Identify prompt-injection and jailbreak patterns
Apply defenses that work in production, not just demos

8. Making your library stick

7 min

Pick the owner, ritual, gates, and contribution path your library needs
Run the 4-week rollout plan to lock the pattern on your team

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