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AI for Software Developers (Prompt Course)

18 lessons · 273 prompts

A day in the life of a Software Developer: what changes with these prompts.

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AI for Software Developers (Prompt Course) is a practical, end-to-end program that shows you how to integrate AI assistants into your everyday engineering work. It brings together a complete set of topics-debugging, API integration, algorithmic thinking, testing, code review, security, performance, scalability, refactoring, CI, documentation, open source participation, localization, machine learning integration, UI/UX, and cloud services-so you can build, ship, and maintain software with more confidence and less friction.

Instead of scattered tips, this course provides a coherent path: how to set goals for an AI-assisted task, how to provide the right context, how to iterate safely, and how to verify results. It focuses on repeatable workflows, measurable outcomes, and strong engineering habits that reduce risk and improve quality across the full software lifecycle.

What you'll learn

  • How to set up AI-assisted workflows that fit your coding style and team processes.
  • Ways to analyze bugs, interpret errors, and converge on fixes with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Approaches for planning API integrations that emphasize reliability, versioning, and observability.
  • Methods for improving algorithmic performance and clarity while keeping trade-offs explicit.
  • Strategies to automate tests, generate test data, and raise coverage without sacrificing speed.
  • Structured code review practices that catch defects, clarify intent, and spread knowledge.
  • Principles for selecting data structures and design patterns that fit real constraints.
  • Security-first habits: threat awareness, secret hygiene, dependency health, and secure defaults.

How this course works

  1. 18 lessonsOne task of your job each, from code debugging assistance to cloud services integration.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish with the exam and a certificate for LinkedIn.