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Prompt Engineering with Claude

Getting useful results from Claude takes more than asking a question. This course will teach you practical prompting techniques to improve results, reduce unnecessary token usage, and help lower AI costs.

Beginner
35m

Created by Dan Tofan

Last Updated Oct 21, 2026

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Prompt Engineering with Claude

Getting useful results from Claude takes more than asking a question. This course will teach you practical prompting techniques to improve results, reduce unnecessary token usage, and help lower AI costs.

Beginner
35m

Created by Dan Tofan

Last Updated Oct 21, 2026

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What you'll learn

Getting consistently useful results from Claude depends on giving it clear instructions, relevant context, and the right constraints. In this course, Prompt Engineering with Claude, you’ll learn how to write clearer prompts, guide more complex tasks, and reduce unnecessary token usage. First, you’ll explore how to structure prompts using the Role-Task-Context-Format framework. Next, you’ll learn how to guide Claude through more complex tasks and verify its outputs. Finally, you’ll learn token-conscious prompting habits that can help lower AI costs without sacrificing response quality. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge needed to get more reliable results from Claude, while using tokens more efficiently.

Prompt Engineering with Claude
Beginner
35m
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Dan Tofan - Pluralsight course - Prompt Engineering with Claude
Dan Tofan
25 courses 4.7 author rating 259 ratings

As a software engineer and lifelong learner, Dan wrote a PhD thesis and many highly-cited publications on decision making and knowledge acquisition in software architecture. Dan used Microsoft technologies for many years, but moved gradually to Python, Linux and AWS to gain different perspectives of the computing world.

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