Prompt Engineering and Generative AI Bootcamp · 4 months
Prompt Engineering and Generative AI
A complete beginner-to-advanced course: AI basics, prompting foundations, tools, advanced patterns (chaining, agents, RAG), safety and real workflows. Build durable skills that transfer across AI products.
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Duration4 monthsBeginner to advanced · homework every chapter
Schedule (UK)Thursday 5–7pmGroup classes
FormatOnline and in personKilburn, London
01 / MODULES
What you will learn
Each chapter ends with a homework exercise.
BEGINNER
AI basics
- What AI is, and what it is not
- Machine learning: learning from examples
- Generative AI across text, images, audio, video and code
- AI applications versus AI models
- How large language models work
- Tokens, context and memory
- Hallucinations and how to verify answers
BEGINNER
Prompting foundations
- Turning a question into a good prompt
- The five-part formula: Goal, Context, Constraints, Output, Check
- Context and grounding
- Constraints and boundaries
- Asking for the output format you need
- ChatGPT tips and copy-ready prompts
INTERMEDIATE
Techniques and tools
- Roles and personas
- Zero-shot, one-shot and few-shot prompting
- Iterative prompting
- Choosing between popular AI tools
- Images, audio, video, music, 3D and multimodal
- Working with files, PDFs and data
- Coding with AI: plan, generate, test, review
ADVANCED
Advanced patterns
- Templates and prompt chaining
- Structured prompts and reasoning tasks
- AI agents and tool use, with approval gates
- RAG: retrieve trusted knowledge, then generate
- Evaluating prompts and outputs
ADVANCED
Safety and real workflows
- Safety, privacy and responsible AI
- Projects for writing and learning
- Projects for research and decisions
- Everyday connected AI: email, calendar and docs
CAPSTONE
Your AI workflow
- Define the problem and the user
- Choose a tool or model, and explain why
- Write a five-part prompt template
- Sketch a chain or agent with approval gates
- Design, test and explain a real system
02 / SCHEDULE
Class schedule
| Day | Time (UK) | Class | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday | 5–7pm | Prompt Engineering and Generative AI | Online and in person |
Group classes, online and in person in Kilburn, London.
03 / FEES AND DATES
Fees and start dates
04 / PRACTISE
Practise on thelastdevstanding.com
thelastdevstanding.com is our own content and competitions site, where students practise prompting between classes.
05 / EXPLORE
News, videos and photos
See what’s happening at FST.
Start with AI today
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