Prompt Engineering for Everyone

Prompt Engineering for Everyone, course code AI0117EN, teaches non-specialists how to write prompts that get useful answers from large language model chat tools. The Cognitive Class page states an estimated effort of five hours at beginner level, in English, with no technical requirements. Five modules run in order and are built around nine short labs with quizzes: an introduction to prompt engineering, asking what it is and why English can be treated as a programming language; getting started, with a first look at a GPT-based tool, the naive prompting approach, the persona pattern and the interview pattern; the chain-of-thought approach; advanced techniques including tree-of-thought prompting, controlling verbosity, a method the course calls the Nova system, and a tour of IBM's watsonx Prompt Lab; and a course summary with an optional final project.

The page says the course suits both technical and business readers, and that you can work in English or your own language. The course is free of charge and the page says a certificate is offered on completion at no cost.