AI-Powered Development with the Anthropic API
37mGeneral2025-03-20
Authors
Ray Villalobos
Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning
Course details
AI APIs provide powerful ways to build intelligent applications, but leveraging them effectively requires skillful prompt engineering and API knowledge. In this course, you'll gain hands-on experience with API requests, learn best practices for structuring prompts, and compare AI model capabilities. Learn to integrate AI into your development workflow.
Learning objectives
Obtain and configure API access to interact with AI models.
Send and process API requests using standard AI model interfaces.
Understand prompt engineering fundamentals to improve AI responses.
Design prompts to achieve desired outputs.
Structure prompts effectively for clarity, specificity, and performance.
Format and optimize API responses for integration into applications.
Learning objectives
Obtain and configure API access to interact with AI models.
Send and process API requests using standard AI model interfaces.
Understand prompt engineering fundamentals to improve AI responses.
Design prompts to achieve desired outputs.
Structure prompts effectively for clarity, specificity, and performance.
Format and optimize API responses for integration into applications.
Skills covered
ClaudeAnthropicGenerative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)One-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Unlocking Anthropic s AI capabilities for developers
Anthropic's Developer Options
- Exploring the Claude family of models for developers
- Using Anthropic's developer resources and setup
- Getting started with the Anthropic Workbench
- Preparing prompts with the Anthropic API Workbench
- Evaluating prompts with the Workbench
Building with the API
- Setting up a basic project with API keys
- Using an API key securely with Claude
- Creating an interactive chat
- Upload a stored prompt
- Injecting prompts and output files