Prompt Engineering for Developers
Structured output, evaluation, and prompt libraries that hold up in production.
Prompt Engineering for Developers is a self-paced online course: 8 hours of recorded sessions across 6 modules, with 5 graded by Nova, Square 1's AI tutor. The founding price is A$45, down from A$90. Start any time and keep your own pace.
- Module 1How models read a prompt60 min
- Module 2Structure, constraints and examples90 min · graded
- Module 3Structured output and tools90 min · graded
- Module 4Evaluating prompts90 min · graded
- Module 5Prompt libraries and versioning60 min · graded
- Module 6Project: a production prompt with evals90 min · graded
- recorded hours
- 8
- modules, in order
- 6
- deployed projects
- 3
- graded checkpoints
- 5
Who it is for, and what you receive.
Developers in Python or TypeScript who want prompts they can measure and change safely.
Python or TypeScript.
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The recorded sessions
Taught by an instructor, taken in order at your own pace, yours for twelve months.
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Graded work after every module
Exercises and projects marked by Nova against a rubric you can read, with what you did well and what to fix.
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The projects
Deployed and graded, each one on your record with its repository.
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Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use, run with the career agent.
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The record and the certificate
Every grade at square1ai.com/u/{handle}; a credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify.
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Nova as your tutor
Help that is about your actual work, because it has read all of it.
The content plan, module by module.
8 recorded hours from an instructor, taken in order at your own pace. Nova grades the work at the end of each module.
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Tokens and attention, practically
Order and emphasis
Common failure patterns
The projects.
Each is deployed and graded by Nova against a rubric you can read before you start.
- Project 1
Schema-checked extraction
A fictional property manager receives hundreds of maintenance emails a week. Write an extraction prompt that turns each into JSON with issue, urgency, unit and contact, using delimiters, few-shot examples and validation with retries.
You hand in- Extraction prompt
- JSON schema
- Validation and retry code
- Held-out test results
The rubric requiresOutput passes the schema check on a held-out set.
- Project 2
A prompt eval suite
Build a golden set of labelled maintenance emails, including messy and ambiguous ones, and a scorer for the extraction prompt. Use it to compare two prompt versions and say which one wins and where.
You hand in- Golden set
- Scoring script
- Comparison report
The rubric requiresTwo prompt versions are compared with numbers from the scorer.
- Project 3
A versioned library
Move your prompts into a repository library with version history and a change process, as a team of several developers would share it. Every prompt change needs an eval run before it merges.
You hand in- Prompt library repository
- Version history
- Change process document
- Eval result per change
The rubric requiresA change to the library is justified by an eval result.
What you can do at the end.
Prompts you can measure and change safely, and three graded projects on your record.
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Explain how a model reads a prompt well enough to structure one.
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Write prompts with structure, constraints and examples that pass a schema check.
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Use structured output and tool calling with validation.
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Evaluate prompts against a golden set.
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Version prompts in a library and change them with evidence.
No placement rate is shown, because there are no graduates to count yet. The roles above are what the projects are built for.
Your record at the end.
Every exercise and project is graded by Nova against a rubric you can read, and every grade is kept on one page an employer can open and run. This is what the programme writes to it.
- Graded, line by line
- Nova reads every submission against the brief and the rubric and returns a score, what you did well and what to fix.
- Module by module
- Each module ends in graded work; the next opens when you are ready, on your own schedule.
- Nova remembers
- Help is about your actual work, because the tutor has every submission and every failed exercise of yours.
- One page an employer can run
- Every grade and project at /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
- ProjectGraded
Schema-checked extraction
Output passes the schema check on a held-out set.
- ProjectGraded
A prompt eval suite
Two prompt versions are compared with numbers from the scorer.
- ProjectGraded
A versioned library
A change to the library is justified by an eval result.
- Every moduleGraded
5 graded checkpoints
Each module ends in work Nova grades line by line against a rubric you can read.
The entries, not the grades: those are yours to earn. The page lives at /verify and an employer needs no account to open it.
5 entries, at your own pace. Reserving a spot holds the founding price.
Pre-orderHow we help you find a job.
Proof, not a certificate: the projects you deployed are the thing you show, and the tools below are yours to use.
The whole plan on a few pages: the parts, the projects, the gates and the price. We email it to you.
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Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use: target roles, the gap map, the proof to send, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome. You run it with the career agent.
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A record an employer can run
Your graded projects on /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
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The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
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The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.
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A path to the live cohort
If you want the instructor, the gates and the hiring sprint, the bootcamp on the same subject is one waitlist away.
Questions people ask.
About Prompt Engineering for Developers, answered from the plan on this page.
- Gen AI Bootcamp · 12-week live bootcamp
- Forward Deployed Engineer Bootcamp · 12-week live bootcamp
- LLM Evals and Reliability Bootcamp · 12-week live bootcamp
Founding spots are open. Hold yours.
Recorded by an instructor who does this work, graded by Nova. Spot holders hear the opening date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm.
- Prompts you can measure and change safely
- Three graded projects on your record