The Claude Master Class: From First Prompt to Power User

Define artifacts as reusable content you access via the artifacts panel, usually documents or PDFs, opened in a separate window, and navigate to your artifacts and personal preferences.

Create an image artifact with the artifact feature to generate a trendy infographic that maps a decade-long timeline of AI breakthroughs and the evolution of large language models.

Create an artifact via chat and save it to the artifacts repository, featuring a concise prompt engineering cheat sheet with context, clear instructions, format, and examples, downloadable as a pdf.

Turn study-guide content into interactive flashcards using existing artifacts, generating cards like barter exchange, factors of production (land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship), and opportunity cost with no code.

Explore artifact as an affordable writing assistant. Use the writing editor to analyze text and receive grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style suggestions, then apply fixes with a free tool.

Create an artifact by appending 'create as artifact' to any content, save it in artifacts, and quickly access Claude's most used features as a reusable artifact.

Define styles to customize how Claude communicates, using presets or creating a custom style. Select concise presets to produce shorter responses and more messages.

Create a personalized writing style in Claude by uploading a sample, refining an author persona, and generating posts that mirror your voice using a custom style named Mike.

Navigate to create and edit styles, preview how a customer email looks, apply updates with Claude, rewrite content, and save changes for different styles such as product reviews.

Learn to emulate Stephen King's writing by creating a custom style, applying it to prompts like a three-page short story about an evil hamster, and compare results.

Create a new project to organize AI written fiction, upload documents, and leverage knowledge across conversations within a central, isolated repository that saves chats and links related files.

Define projects as centralized folders that contain notes, files, and conversations, enable uploading files, support collaboration by referencing earlier conversations, and use custom instructions.

Define clear Claude project instructions by setting a role, a goal, and preferences, then apply them across all chats in the project using tangible artifacts.

interact with the model and your uploaded files inside a project, review the prompt engineering cheat sheet and its core principles: be clear and specific, provide context, and save artifacts.

Learn to create a hands-on project, set up instructions, upload a document, and interact with it to practice prompt engineering basics.

Explore Claude's context window as its working memory and how it limits recalls. Upload books and documents for long conversations using Claude's 200k token capacity—the largest among llms.

The lecture demonstrates the value of a larger context window by uploading and interacting with a book, showing how Claude retrieves document-based answers in real time.

learn how to enable extended thinking in Claude, watch its step-by-step reasoning for complex problems, and understand when to use it for strategic decisions, ethical dilemmas, and multifactor analysis.

Explore how Claude skills bundle instructions, scripts, and resources into dynamic actions for any chat. Learn about preview access, paid availability, and enabling or uploading skills in settings.

Explore how Claude uses behind-the-scenes skills to create a branded deck, integrating brand colors, logos, and PowerPoint workflows through invoked skills and thought processes.

Set up and use email connectors to connect Gmail, explore how they read emails and their limitations, and consider their role in agentic workflows beyond this course.

Explore how Claude serves as a research assistant by applying concept reductionism to break complex topics, like quantum entanglement, into understandable levels and foster ongoing probing.

Explore how Claude uses pattern recognition for comparative analysis to find parallels between Stephen King's works, such as The Graveyard Shift, and to seed plots with what-if questions.

Showcase how Claude generates counterarguments in research by refuting an author's thesis on the great recession, analyzing the CRA, Clinton-era policies, and subprime causes.

Learn to use Claude's deep research tools, enable deep search and extended research, gather 140 sources and counting, and generate a downloadable research report artifact.

Learn to use Claude for literature reviews, producing CliffsNotes-style summaries of 'The Raven' and exploring themes of grief, loss, death, and obsession with historical context.

Explore Claude's idea-generation strengths through a well-formed prompt that yields detailed concepts with implementation, monetization, differentiation, culinary data services, and ten-hour weekly constraints for cooking tech ideas.

Always use a role or persona to guide prompts and learning, such as a patient history teacher who explains problems step by step.

Craft the best study guide prompts with Claude using prompt engineering and iterative tweaks. Generate a complete study guide from a chapter five prompt and download it for your project.

Discover how to use Claude by asking it to think through tasks step by step, with or without extended thinking, for clearer, more thorough machine learning guidance.

Create a machine learning engineer resume using the exact structure of a data analyst resume, filling it with fabricated data to demonstrate the existing format.

Balance clarity and creativity when prompting Claude to avoid overly formal prompts. See an example: a 500-word ai and education blog prompt with humor and an anecdote yields engaging output.

Learn how to prompt Claude to show off its creative writing prowess, including narrative structure and pacing, voice and characterization, and descriptive writing and sensory detail.

Use an image to guide Claude by circling the email address column in a document screenshot, then instruct Claude to create a CSV with separate name and email columns.

Create charts to visualize data and highlight top artificial intelligence jobs, such as machine learning engineer and data scientist. Use bar graphs to represent stress and other key metrics.

Craft effective prompts, extract meaningful insights from large documents, and create professional presentations and interactive applications using Claude’s extended context window, mastering practical AI literacy.