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Introduction to Qwen

Qwen is more than just a model. This course will teach you how its chat, API, coding, and open-weight parts fit together, how to choose between them, and how to apply Qwen to everyday prompting, coding, and visual workflows.

Beginner
29m

Created by Dan Tofan

Last Updated Sep 16, 2026

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Introduction to Qwen

Qwen is more than just a model. This course will teach you how its chat, API, coding, and open-weight parts fit together, how to choose between them, and how to apply Qwen to everyday prompting, coding, and visual workflows.

Beginner
29m

Created by Dan Tofan

Last Updated Sep 16, 2026

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What you'll learn

Qwen offers models and tools for everyday AI work, software development, and working with images and video, but its growing ecosystem can be difficult to navigate when you are new to it. In this course, Introduction to Qwen, you’ll learn how the main parts of the ecosystem fit together and how to choose an appropriate way to use Qwen for the task. First, you’ll explore the Qwen ecosystem. Then, you'll learn a simple approach for choosing a model, and consider how different Qwen options affect where your data goes. Finally, you’ll see Qwen in action through demos covering everyday prompting, coding, and visual content. When you’re finished, you’ll have a practical foundation for choosing and using Qwen confidently in common developer workflows.

Introduction to Qwen
Beginner
29m
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Dan Tofan - Pluralsight course - Introduction to Qwen
Dan Tofan
24 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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