
Meet Ali Walsh, designer and lab instructor, with Douglas the AI voice assistant exclusively guiding the theoretical components while Ali leads practical labs for a hands-on, streamlined learning experience.
Participants should have solid web development experience, advanced proficiency in Python, and a strong understanding of web APIs. If you lack these areas, complete foundational courses before enrolling.
Explore how to build ai apps like chatbots and document analyzers using LangChain, a Python library that orchestrates prompts, models, and output parsers to chain components into real applications.
Learn how large language models work, their memory limits, and how LangChain in Python orchestrates context, tools, and multi-step workflows to boost LLM effectiveness.
Create a Python virtual environment to provide isolated workspace for projects, manage library versions without global installs, and activate it to keep Python and pip aligned with its site packages.
Create an isolated Python environment for this course by setting up a virtual environment with venv, navigating to a project folder, and activating it to confirm readiness.
Generate your Deep Seek API key, sign up on platform.com, and save the key securely. Use the free credits and monitor usage as you prepare LangChain AI apps.
Activate the virtual environment, install LangChain libraries, and build your first LangChain app. Create a capital querying flow using a country input and a .env API key.
Preview the upcoming LangChain crash course project: a chatbot that writes poems from any word users type, showcasing interactive word-to-poem capabilities and creative AI responses.
Master prompt templates in LangChain by running a lab that generates a short funny poem from a topic and sets up a Python virtual environment and project files.
Learn to build and test prompts with PromptTemplate in LangChain, using a deepsea LLM and environment variables to generate topic-based poems, with a guardio web chat interface that preserves history.
Chain together prompts, databases, APIs, and documents with logic to transform an LLM into a full stack app, maintaining state and orchestrating multi-step workflows for reliable, data-driven tasks.
Learn how generic chains combine a prompt template with a large language model to convert user input into prompts and return the model output.
Walks through building a LangChain lab app, loading api keys from a dot env file, and launching a Guardio web interface to generate company names with a dipstick model.
Discover how LangChain's simple sequential chain connects multiple llm powered chains in a strict sequence, where each output feeds the next, illustrated by a grocery shopping workflow.
Set up a Python virtual environment, install dependencies from requirements.txt, and run a sequential chain in LangChain to generate a genre-based title and its short story via a Gradio app.
Walk through LangChain's simple sequential chain lab, building a title-generation chain feeding into a story-summary chain, with prompts, a chat model, and verbose debugging for clear output.
Explore sequential chain, a multi-input, multi-output workflow that tracks intermediate results. See how title, summary, and image are generated in a three-step process from a genre.
Explore how tools empower language models to act, calling Python functions, API calls, or tools like Google search, database queries, or calculators, as part of an agent.
Build an AI powered restaurant menu creator with LangChain and Streamlit, using a two-step chain to name a dish from a category and craft its description.
Demonstrates building an AI app demo with Streamlit to generate dish names and descriptions, manage menus with drop-downs, and navigate a concise crash course on rapid prototyping.
Build an AI-powered restaurant menu creator with LangChain's sequential chain, set up the environment, install dependencies, run a local app, and generate menu items.
Walks through building an AI-powered restaurant menu creator using Streamlit UI and LangChain prompts; demonstrates two chained prompts producing a dish name from a category and a corresponding description.
Ever wondered how AI apps like custom chatbots or document analyzers are built? This is your fast-track, hands-on introduction to LangChain, the Python library that makes building with large language models (LLMs) easy. This crash course gives you the foundational skills to start building—fast.
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Please Note: This is a crash course.
It is designed to get you over the initial learning hump and building basic applications quickly. You will not be an expert by the end, but you will have a solid, practical understanding of the core concepts that power most LangChain applications.
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Stop just using ChatGPT's website and start building your own AI-powered tools. Learn to harness the power of top LLMs—including GPT-4o (OpenAI), Gemini (Google) , DeepSeek R1 etc—right inside your Python code.
We will be using Deepseek as our LLM.
We cut through the complexity and focus on what you need to know to start creating. This course is packed with practical labs so you don't just learn the theory, you understand how to apply it immediately.
What You Will Learn:
The "Why" Behind LangChain: Understand the limitations of raw LLMs (like their "stateless," amnesiac nature) and why a framework like LangChain is essential for building useful applications.
Core Building Blocks: Get hands-on with the fundamental components of LangChain, including Prompts, Models, and Output Parsers.
The Power of "Chaining": This is the heart of LangChain. Learn how to "chain" components together to create multi-step AI workflows, moving from simple, linear chains to more powerful sequences that can handle multiple inputs and outputs.
Practical Application: See how these concepts combine to create the foundation for real-world applications like custom chatbots and document analysis tools.
This course includes practical coding labs for every major concept, ensuring you understand the theory by applying it yourself.
Who is this course for?
Python developers who want to add AI capabilities to their applications.
Developers, data scientists, and tech enthusiasts curious about building with LLMs.
Anyone tired of just theorizing about AI and ready to start building with it.
Prerequisites:
Solid web development experience in any language or framework
Advanced proficiency in Python
A strong understanding of Web APIs
Start your LangChain journey today. Enroll now and begin building intelligent applications faster than you thought possible!