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Beginner

AI Agents Fundamentals

This comprehensive beginner course covers everything you need to know about AI agents. You will learn the core concepts behind autonomous AI systems, understand different agent architectures, and build your first working agent from scratch. By the end, you will have a solid foundation to tackle more advanced agent development.

What You'll Learn

Agent Architecture Prompt Engineering Tool Use Python API Integration

Course Curriculum

1 Introduction to AI Agents
4 lessons
  • Lesson 1: What are AI Agents?
  • Lesson 2: Agent vs Chatbot: Key Differences
  • Lesson 3: The Agent Loop: Perceive, Think, Act
  • Lesson 4: Setting Up Your Dev Environment
2 Building Your First Agent
4 lessons
  • Lesson 1: Prompt Engineering for Agents
  • Lesson 2: Tool Use & Function Calling
  • Lesson 3: Building a Research Agent
  • Lesson 4: Error Handling & Retries
3 Agent Architectures
4 lessons
  • Lesson 1: ReAct Pattern
  • Lesson 2: Plan & Execute
  • Lesson 3: Reflection & Self-Correction
  • Lesson 4: Choosing the Right Architecture
4 Capstone Project
5 lessons
  • Lesson 1: Project Planning
  • Lesson 2: Implementation
  • Lesson 3: Testing & Evaluation
  • Lesson 4: Deployment Basics
  • Lesson 5: Next Steps
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Instructor Sarah Chen
Duration 4h 30m
Lessons 18
Level Beginner
Certificate Yes

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