Learner Reviews & Feedback for Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT by Vanderbilt University
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KK
Nov 1, 2024
I gained quite a few insights about prompt engineering and now have a better understanding how a LLM works. The professor's knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject make this course enjoyable.
MS
Feb 21, 2024
Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT has been a great introduction course. I look forward to diving into additional AI courses. I've even joined a Meetup group to continue learning outside of the classroom!
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By Omer G
鈥Jul 18, 2024
This course was something of a disappointment. The professor is a bit long-winded, and never did show how to ask a simple question, then a follow-up question, then a question after that, etc. to get the response you want and have a conversation go in a good direction. That's one of the most basic uses of ChatGPT. A lot of the "patterns" that he discusses seem more appropriate if you want to build your own chatbot, taking in lots of data from users or sifting through lots of internal data. I can see why his background is in computer science, because he seemed to focus more on the technical aspects of pattern after pattern rather than issues having to do with wording and critical thinking as you have conversations with ChatGPT.
By Rohan S
鈥Sep 20, 2025
The course covers various prompting techniques for large language models, many of which users may already apply intuitively without knowing the specific terminology. While it serves as a good introduction for beginners unfamiliar with ChatGPT, experienced users may find it less practical. The vocabulary and terms are clearly defined, but many learners might remember the applications rather than the formal terms. Overall, the course provides foundational knowledge but may offer limited new insights for regular users.
By Lain E
鈥Oct 21, 2024
The instructor spends a lot of time on easy concepts and then lumps more complex concepts together in later lessons. It would be better to do the reverse. Also, not all prompts are included in the reading. A resource guide or some kind of handout with all the discussed prompts would greatly benefit the learner. Finally, it doesn't seem like anyone is answering questions in the discussion forums. Since this is a paid class, I expected a TA would periodically review the questions there to provide greater insight.
By Irina S
鈥Sep 3, 2024
Professor is engaging and provides clear explanations. The examples however are a bit limiting in their applicability to other areas (hard to see how to generalize them to other useful contexts). The examples were entertaining and interesting to follow, but perhaps that should not be the goal. Perhaps more information should have been offered on how to bring other tools into the chat to help solve problems. I guess it's ok overall given that the professor had to distill information in an emerging field.
By Karen J
鈥Nov 13, 2024
I really enjoyed many aspects of this course, but it assumed more knowledge about computer science than I possess. Maybe this was not the right course for this, but I was hoping for something very very basic. However, I did learn many interesting takeaways and being married to a developer for 30 years really helped my understanding. If I did not have that I would have been hopelessly lost at some points.
By M峄 L T
鈥Feb 18, 2025
Although most of the patterns are useful, the content is too long. The instructor may eliminate unrelated content during the lesson to make it more focused and concise. Showing the initial content while talking about something else at the same time really distracts me.
By Joanna C
鈥Nov 22, 2023
The content was interesting and the instructor was very knowledgeable but I found the content very repetitive, the videos were too long and I thought that a lot of the concepts could have been explained in shorter videos or in a shorter course overall.
By Miriam K
鈥Jul 19, 2025
Die Inhalte zielen auf die LLMs aus 2023 ab. Bei einer Technologie mit so rasanter Entwicklung w盲re eine 脺berarbeitung einzelner Komponenten vielleicht ganz gut. F眉r Grundlagen ist der Kurs immer noch gut, m眉sste nur mal ein Update bekommen.
By Andrew M
鈥Apr 7, 2025
Course was good, but the assessment was very basic, it was all just demonstrating prompts, and all worth 1 mark so no indication of if it was good or just barely triggered what the AI was looking for.
By Arjit M
鈥Mar 16, 2025
There are some really good prompts in this course but not every prompt. some of the topics are irrelevant and not being actually used in day-to-day work. 50 percent of the prompt was usefull
By Muhammad H A
鈥Jul 31, 2023
This course is incredibly fascinating. I learn a lot of magnificent things. But one thing that I face, the links given in the reading material are not working. Please check those links.
By Vladimir B
鈥Jan 20, 2025
The course is not relevant in 2025, many of the topics are updated and the newest version of ChatGPT is already resolving some of the issues outlined
By Devesh V
鈥Oct 13, 2025
This course is very good for beginners, but sadly outdated. Chatgpt has thinking and research mode for most of the techniques described here
By Karin E
鈥Jan 30, 2024
The content is great, however rather lengthy presentation. would be great if the readings could be downloaded in a summarised way
By Georgios C
鈥Sep 7, 2025
Ok, outdated by now. Few good new ideas that you wouldn't come up with on your own, but mostly known stuff to chatGPT users
By Heinrich W
鈥Jun 20, 2024
Die Aufgaben/脺bungen waren nicht immer eindeutig und auch die 脺bersetzung ins Deutsche war teilweise fehlerhaft.
By Ramon V A
鈥Oct 2, 2024
Too long. I would go straight to the point. It would be good a summary cheat-sheet at the end of the course.
By Marcos M
鈥Jul 23, 2025
Cursos deveria ser classificado como basico para pessoas que possuem nenhuma no莽茫o de chat ou programa莽茫o
By Laura B
鈥May 14, 2025
It麓s a decent course for absolute beginners. but it麓s a bit outdated and not very interactive.
By Justin M
鈥Sep 24, 2025
Having current experience with ChatGPT, this course seems somewhat dated.
By Bobak M
鈥Sep 14, 2024
It was decent, but could have been half the length of time. Too verbose
By Jennifer B
鈥Apr 11, 2025
Some of the content is outdated now as the tech has changed rapidly.
By Sylvie M
鈥Oct 1, 2025
Les vid茅os sont trop longues et j'esp茅rais un cours plus pouss茅.
By Taylor W
鈥May 31, 2025
At this point a lot of the tactics presented are very dated.
By Makdad A M A
鈥Oct 11, 2024
The lesson explanation was long and boring.