Explore where Claude shines in the LLM landscape and learn to craft your very first prompt. By the end, you’ll be communicating with Claude by sending API requests using the Anthropic API.

What is Claude and the Anthropic API?

Try your first Claude prompt!

Claude’s key advantages

Making your first request

End-to-end Claude prompting

Extracting Claude's response

Controlling response length with tokens

Introduction to the Anthropic API

Guide Claude in generating, transforming, and controlling content across real-world scenarios. From summarizing complex text to rewriting for different audiences, develop a strong foundation in prompt engineering and experiment with parameters to control Claude's creativity and precision.

Summarizing and rewriting text

Text summarization with Claude

Text rewriting with Claude

Generating new content

Controlling creativity with temperature

Experimenting with top_p

Few-shot prompting and conversation roles

Few shot prompting for product reviews

Conversation roles for customer support

System messages for behavior control

System messages for email assistant

Testing and refining system messages

Prompting with Claude

Unlock Claude’s advanced capabilities for handling complex tasks. You’ll prompt it to reason through business decisions, build multi-turn conversations that maintain context, and solve real business problems—from customer support to document analysis—while keeping an eye on cost, safety, and responsible AI use.

Using multi-message conversations

Building multi-message conversations

Collaborative problem solving

Claude's thinking capabilities

Using Claude's thinking mode

Analytical problem solving with Claude

Expanding Claude usage in business applications

Business document analysis

Claude business considerations assessment

Congratulations!

Building multi-message interactions

Unlock the power of Claude to build safe, thoughtful, and high-impact AI experiences. In this course, you'll learn how to work with Claude using the Anthropic API to solve real-world tasks across content generation, summarization, customer support, and more. You'll experiment with Claude’s models to write effective prompts, simulate multi-turn conversations, and build role-based assistants. By the end, you'll be equipped to create applications that combine reliability, reasoning, and structure—all powered by one of today’s most advanced large language models.

Introduction to Functions in Python

Large Language Models (LLMs) Concepts

Learn how to work with Claude using the Anthropic API to solve real-world tasks and build AI-powered applications.

Introduction to Claude Models

Claude’s key advantages

Introduction to Claude Models

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