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.

Skills covered

ClaudeAnthropicGenerative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)One-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Unlocking Anthropic s AI capabilities for developers

1. Anthropic's Developer Options

02 - Exploring the Claude family of models for developers
03 - Using Anthropic's developer resources and setup
04 - Getting started with the Anthropic Workbench
05 - Preparing prompts with the Anthropic API Workbench
06 - Evaluating prompts with the Workbench

2. Building with the API

07 - Setting up a basic project with API keys
08 - Using an API key securely with Claude
09 - Creating an interactive chat
10 - Upload a stored prompt
11 - Injecting prompts and output files