Semantic Kernel in Action: Fundamentals

Course details

As AI becomes increasingly important in software development, Semantic Kernel offers a powerful tool for .NET developers to create, orchestrate, and integrate AI components and memories. In this course, developer community lead and software architect José Luis Latorre empowers you to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape and guides you in building sophisticated AI solutions. Get a comprehensive overview of Semantic Kernel, including plug-ins, planners, and memories. Gain hands-on experience in setting up the environment, creating and orchestrating plug-ins, mastering planners, and working with memories. Plus, complete a final project that brings all the concepts presented in the course together.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - If you can code in .NET, you are an AI developer
02 - What you should know about this course

1. Semantic Kernel Concepts

03 - What is Semantic Kernel
04 - Core components of Semantic Kernel
05 - Semantic Kernel vs. LangChain

2. Enter the Kernel

06 - Setting up
07 - Using GitHub Codespaces
08 - The kernel
09 - Adding AI services to the kernel
10 - Trying out the kernel

3. Diving into Plug-ins

11 - Introduction to plug-ins
12 - Developing prompt functions
13 - Practice - Developing prompt functions
14 - Developing native functions
15 - Practice - Developing native functions
16 - Using out-of-the-box plug-ins
17 - Using prompt templates
18 - Practice - Using prompt templates
19 - Invoking and chaining functions
20 - Practice - Invoking and chaining functions

4. Mastering Planners

21 - Introduction to planners
22 - Implementing function calling
23 - Practice - Implementing function calling
24 - Implementing Handlebars planners
25 - Practice - Implementing Handlebars planners
26 - Implementing Stepwise planners
27 - Practice - Implementing Stepwise planners

5. Creating and Using Agents

28 - Introduction to agents
29 - Crafting our first agent
30 - Practice - Crafting our first agent
31 - Agent delegation
32 - Practice - Agent delegation
33 - Agent collaboration
34 - Practice - Agent collaboration

6. Understanding Memories

35 - The many concepts needed for memories
36 - RAG types
37 - Semantic Kernel memory
38 - Practice - Implement memories

7. Hands-On Final Project

39 - Introduction to building a comprehensive project
40 - Implementing the search plug-in
41 - Using the plug-in to search
42 - Implement scoring, summarizing, and report functions
43 - Adding a Handlebars prompt to streamline all

Conclusion

44 - Next steps on our Semantic Kernel journey