Anthropic Developer Courses

This repository provides a series of five educational courses designed to teach different aspects of working with Anthropic's Claude models. It is recommended to complete them in the following order:

1. Anthropic API fundamentals: Covers Claude SDK essentials, including API key management, model parameters, multimodal prompts, and streaming responses.
2. Prompt engineering interactive tutorial: A step-by-step guide to key prompting techniques.
3. Real world prompting: Focuses on incorporating prompting techniques into complex, real-world scenarios.
4. Prompt evaluations: Teaches how to write production-grade prompt evaluations to measure prompt quality.
5. Tool use: Covers implementation of tool use workflows with Claude.

Note on Model Usage: To minimize API costs, these courses often use Claude 3 Haiku. You may use other Claude models if preferred.

The anthropic_api_fundamentals course provides a series of Jupyter notebook tutorials designed to teach the essentials of working with Claude models and the Anthropic SDK. The curriculum covers the following topics:

• Getting Started: Obtaining an API key and making simple requests.
• Messages Format: Working with the standard messages API structure.
• Model Comparison: Comparing the capabilities and performance of different models in the Claude family.
• Model Parameters: Understanding and configuring model parameters.
• Streaming: Implementing and working with streaming responses.
• Vision Prompting: Using vision capabilities with Claude models.

The tutorial is divided into three difficulty levels and an appendix covering advanced topics:

Beginner

• Chapter 1: Basic Prompt Structure
• Chapter 2: Being Clear and Direct
• Chapter 3: Assigning Roles

Intermediate

• Chapter 4: Separating Data from Instructions
• Chapter 5: Formatting Output & Speaking for Claude
• Chapter 6: Precognition (Thinking Step by Step)
• Chapter 7: Using Examples

Advanced

• Chapter 8: Avoiding Hallucinations
• Chapter 9: Building Complex Prompts (Chatbots, Legal Services, Financial Services, and Coding)

Appendix (Advanced Methods)

• Chaining Prompts
• Tool Use
• Empirical Performance Evaluations
• Search & Retrieval

To execute prompt evaluations using promptfoo, ensure your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable is set.

1. Run the evaluation command: promptfoo eval

2. View the evaluation results in a web interface by running: promptfoo view

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY='your-api-key-here'
promptfoo eval
promptfoo view

To execute the custom model-graded prompt evaluations in this course module, ensure your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable is set.

1. Run the evaluation using the CLI command: promptfoo eval

2. View the evaluation results in a web interface by running: promptfoo view

To perform prompt evaluations where a model acts as the grader, ensure your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable is set.

1. Execute the evaluation using the CLI command: promptfoo eval

2. View the evaluation results in a web interface by running: promptfoo view

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY='your-api-key-here'
promptfoo eval
promptfoo view

The Tool Use tutorial is a six-lesson course designed to teach developers how to implement tool use workflows with Claude. The course is sequential; it is highly recommended to follow the lessons in order as each builds upon the concepts from the previous one.

Curriculum Path:

1. Tool use overview: Foundational concepts.
2. Your first simple tool: Implementing basic tool functionality.
3. Forcing JSON with tool use: Techniques for structured outputs.
4. The complete tool use workflow: End-to-end implementation.
5. Tool choice: Controlling how Claude selects tools.
6. Building a chatbot with multiple tools: Managing complex interactions with multiple tool definitions.

To execute prompt evaluations using promptfoo, ensure your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable is set.

1. Run the evaluation command: promptfoo eval

2. View the evaluation results in a web interface: promptfoo view

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
promptfoo eval
promptfoo view