When you first see all the units available in this course, you may be aghast. Well, don't be. The point of this course is to learn some basic skills for prompting AI "models." An AI model is this arena's term for a specific AI ChatGPT application like ChatGPT 4 or Claude 3.
These prompting skills anybody can learn—they are not just for computer programmers and developers. In this course, you will encounter variables and looping. Those are computer concepts but easy ones to grasp. You can specify output as Microsoft Word, HTML, JSON, Excel, and others. But if you don't know HTML or JSON, this course provides links to tools that convert to applications you do know.
I (David McMurrey) prefer to this course to be called AI Prompts for Technical Writers as opposed to "Prompt Engineering," which presumes an engineering background. Nope. As someone has said, "The current hot programming language is English!"
Back to the units in this course: there are twenty, and counting:
- You don't have to do them all.
- You can do them in any order you choose.
- There are no due dates.
- You do not have create your own prompts that model the ones in the units.
- Your prompts do not have to be "successful"—no need to show them to McMurrey.
However (always a "however")! If you wish to have a recommendation letter from David McMurrey confirming your good work in this course, David will list units you successfully completed in the letter. And so that means writing and testing own prompts and then uploading them to David's server. Upload code provided in each unit.
Here are video links to AI chat systems:
Here are how-to videos on AI prompting and on AI systems:
- Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT. Jules White, Vanderbilt Univ. This is the best!
- ChatGPT Tutorial: How to Use Chat GPT For Beginners 2023
- How To Use Chat GPT by Open AI For Beginners
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