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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT by Vanderbilt University

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About the Course

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work. Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools. This course introduces students to the patterns and approaches for writing effective prompts for large language models. Anyone can take the course and the only required knowledge is basic computer usage skills, such as using a browser and accessing ChatGPT. Students will start with basic prompts and build towards writing sophisticated prompts to solve problems in any domain. By the end of the course, students will have strong prompt engineering skills and be capable of using large language models for a wide range of tasks in their job, business, personal life, and education, such as writing, summarization, game play, planning, simulation, and programming....

Top reviews

JM

Jun 12, 2025

Very easy to digest and each section is explained using clear examples. The instructor has a way of simplifying something that could be perceived as tricky and complex! Enjoyed this course very much!

WA

Apr 17, 2024

I really loved it, I used chatgpt to understand the videos and I'm glad coursera offers context under the videos, this helped me finish the certificate in not a long time, all it takes is dedication.

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By Vajja P

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Aug 15, 2025

Very Nice course.

By V S N T

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Jun 25, 2025

Nice presentation

By Balaraju P

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Jan 31, 2024

great explanation

By Mariell A Z M

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Sep 1, 2025

es un buen curso

By 1017_Sourav N

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Sep 26, 2024

very good course

By Martin C

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Oct 14, 2023

Cours très riche

By JUAN E Z C

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Aug 26, 2024

muy interesante

By Khiem H

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Jul 24, 2025

Good to apply

By Devendra D

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Aug 9, 2025

thats good.

By Aswathi S

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Jul 16, 2025

Good course

By Oscar I C C

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Mar 12, 2025

muy extenso

By Khalil E K

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Sep 5, 2024

Thank you.

By Renato R G

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Mar 12, 2025

Very good

By 0025 p k

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Nov 10, 2024

to good

By Roshani D D

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Aug 4, 2023

Helpful

By tainp11

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Jun 3, 2023

so good

By Blessing M

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Oct 21, 2024

great

By JOYASREE S

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Aug 23, 2025

good

By Eshwar R

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Aug 22, 2024

good

By Shrikrushna S K

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Apr 10, 2024

Good

By Suraj M

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Oct 24, 2023

Good

By Kolli R

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Oct 13, 2023

Nice

By Kiriti S S

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Sep 10, 2023

nice

By Nuhed N

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Aug 26, 2023

w

By Omer G

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Jul 17, 2024

This course was something of a disappointment. The professor is a bit long-winded, and never did show how to ask a simple question, then a follow-up question, then a question after that, etc. to get the response you want and have a conversation go in a good direction. That's one of the most basic uses of ChatGPT. A lot of the "patterns" that he discusses seem more appropriate if you want to build your own chatbot, taking in lots of data from users or sifting through lots of internal data. I can see why his background is in computer science, because he seemed to focus more on the technical aspects of pattern after pattern rather than issues having to do with wording and critical thinking as you have conversations with ChatGPT.