Prompt Engineering Learning Resources
A list of resources I keep for people who ask where to study prompt engineering. If you know of other worthwhile resources, please let me know.
Beginner Resources
- OpenAI Prompt Engineering — OpenAI Platform
- Anthropic Prompt Engineering Overview — Anthropic
- Prompt Engineering Guide
- Learn Prompting
- Book: The Best Prompt Engineering Course to Start with Conceptual Understanding
- YouTube: LLMs for Researchers — Getting ChatGPT to Work Well: Prompting Tips
- Google Prompt Engineering Guide — Prompt Engineering Whitepaper by Lee Boonstra (February 2025 version)
- Udacity free course — Gemini API by Google Cloud Skills Boost: Introduction to Large Language Models
Intermediate and Advanced Resources
- The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques ([2406.06608]) — a review paper covering 50 prompting techniques; useful for learning a range of strategies.
- Cohere LLM University: Constructing Prompts — useful for studying NLP fundamentals and LLMs more broadly.
- DeepLearning.AI: ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
- DeepLearning.AI: Prompt Engineering with Llama 2 & 3
- DeepLearning.AI: Building Systems with the ChatGPT API — an introduction to building applications that use LLM prompting.
- DeepLearning.AI: Reasoning with o1 — a prompting tutorial for reasoning models.
- Coursera: Google Prompting Essentials
- Coursera: Prompt Engineering Specialization (Vanderbilt) — Coursera courses may vary in scope and difficulty depending on the material, so it can help to review their descriptions before choosing one.
Model-Specific Material
- OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Prompting Guide — dedicated prompt-writing material for GPT-4.1, released on April 14, 2025. Its behavior differs somewhat from that of other models.
NLP Learning Material
- NLP and LLM Practical Guide (Hanbit Media) YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaTc2c6yEwmrNTO7vWp50vRMvtwjrZ-Lr&si=Q9vihkPipbg71ZfO
Last Updated
April 16, 2025