Free · Anthropic

Claude & Anthropic courses, free from the source.

Everything below is free. We've ordered it roughly from foundations → applied → advanced. Pair it with our GenAI Engineer Bootcamp if you want mentorship and a cohort.

Foundations & Prompting

Start here if you've never built with an LLM. These will give you the mental model for prompting Claude.

FreeBeginner~6 hrs

Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial

Anthropic · GitHub / Google Sheets / Colab

The official 9-chapter tutorial that walks you through basic → advanced prompting with runnable exercises in Claude.

Hands-onStart →
FreeBeginner~3 hrs

Anthropic Academy

Anthropic · academy.anthropic.com

Anthropic's official learning hub — short courses on prompting, Claude features, and building with the API.

Self-pacedOpen →
FreeBeginner~1 hr

Introduction to Claude

Anthropic Docs

Read the official intro to Claude models, capabilities, context window and how to call the API. Bookmark it.

FreeBeginner1 hr

Building with Claude

DeepLearning.AI × Anthropic

Andrew Ng's short course on calling Claude, controlling output, and using system prompts effectively.

Video + CodeOpen →
FreeBeginner~2 hrs

Prompt Engineering Guide

Anthropic Docs

The canonical reference for chain-of-thought, XML tags, role prompts, prefilling and other Claude prompting techniques.

ReferenceRead →
FreeBeginner~30 min

Prompt Library

Anthropic

Production-ready example prompts for 50+ use cases — copy-paste, fork, and learn from how Anthropic structures them.

ExamplesBrowse →

Build with the API

Once you can prompt well, learn to build apps that call Claude programmatically.

FreeIntermediateSelf-paced

Anthropic Cookbook

Anthropic · GitHub

Working notebooks for RAG, tool use, evals, vision, batch processing and more. The single best way to learn the API.

NotebooksOpen →
FreeIntermediate~2 hrs

Tool Use with Claude

DeepLearning.AI × Anthropic

Define tools, parse tool calls, build a multi-step agent loop. Foundation for anything agentic.

CourseOpen →
FreeIntermediate~3 hrs

Claude API Quickstart

Anthropic Docs

From `pip install anthropic` to streaming, multi-turn, vision, and structured outputs. Use this as your reference.

Claude Code & Agents

How modern engineers actually use Claude to ship code, run tasks, and build agents.

FreeIntermediate~1 hr

Claude Code: Overview

Anthropic Docs

Get started with the official agentic coding tool — installation, slash commands, hooks, and MCP servers.

FreeIntermediate~2 hrs

Building Agents with Claude

Anthropic Engineering Blog

Anthropic's own writeups on agent patterns, tool design, planning loops and when not to use agents.

Article seriesOpen →
FreeAdvanced~3 hrs

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Anthropic Docs

Learn the open protocol for plugging tools, data sources and skills into Claude — the standard for agent integrations.

Spec + ExamplesOpen →