Part I · 55 Completed Exercises
Course exercises, done
Every exercise from all 16 chapters of prompt engineering practice, completed against real situations from my own life, coffee brewing, a career inflection, a Sierra hike, an apology I owed a teammate. Each entry shows the prompt I ran, what came back, what I noticed, and the reusable template at the end for future use.
Chapter 1
The Machine That Predicts
3 exercises
Chapter 2
What AI Can Do
4 exercises
Chapter 3
How Prompts Actually Work
4 exercises
Chapter 4
Context Is Everything
4 exercises
Chapter 5
The Techniques Worth Knowing
4 exercises
Chapter 6
Getting Consistent Results
4 exercises
Chapter 7
Making the Output Fit the Purpose
3 exercises
Chapter 8
Tone, Audience, and Voice
3 exercises
Chapter 9
The Failure Modes
4 exercises
Chapter 10
Verification in Practice
3 exercises
Chapter 11
Where Bias Comes From
3 exercises
Chapter 12
Evaluating Outputs Critically
3 exercises
Chapter 13
Prompt Chaining
4 exercises
Chapter 14
Putting It All Together
4 exercises
Chapter 15
Evaluating New Tools
2 exercises
Chapter 16
Keeping Your Skills Current
3 exercises