Overview
With generative AI, a new technology era has begun. Software developers can leverage this revolutionary technology to write high-quality code with fewer bugs, which will increase their overall effectiveness and efficiency and. This is making generative AI an essential and must-have skill for software engineers.
This IBM specialization offering is designed for anyone interested in leveraging the power of generative AI in software development. This includes existing and aspiring web developers, mobile app developers, front-end developers, backend-end developers, full stack developers, DevOps professionals, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs).
With three self-paced courses in the specialization, you will begin with the basics of generative AI including its uses, models, and tools for text, code, image, audio, and video generation. Advance to prompts engineering, explore various prompt engineering approaches and prompt engineering tools including IBM Watsonx, Prompt Lab, Spellbook, and Dust.
Boost your programming skills by learning to leverage generative AI to design, develop, translate, test, document, and launch applications and their code. Gain hands-on experience using generative AI tools and models, such as GitHub Copilot, Open AI ChatGPT, and Google Gemini, for various software engineering tasks.  
Enroll now and gain the edge with AI skills that will boost your productivity and effectiveness as a programmer.
Syllabus
Course 1: Generative AI: Introduction and Applications
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Course 2: Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
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Course 3: Generative AI:Elevate your Software Development Career
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- Offered by IBM. This course is designed for everyone, including professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts, interested in learning ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
- Offered by IBM. This course is designed for everyone, including professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts interested in ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Generative AI:Elevate your Software Development Career
- Offered by IBM. Generative AI is transforming the field of Software Engineering, making it a crucial skills for Developers to have in their ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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This course is designed for everyone, including professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts interested in leveraging effective prompt engineering techniques to unlock the full potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. Prompt engineering is a process to effectively guide generative AI models and control their output to produce desired results. In this course, you will learn the techniques, approaches, and best practices for writing effective prompts. You will learn about prompt techniques like zero-shot and few-shot, which can improve the reliability and quality of large language models (LLMs). You will also explore various prompt engineering approaches like Interview Pattern, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thought, which aim at generating precise and relevant responses. You will be introduced to commonly used prompt engineering tools like IBM watsonx Prompt Lab, Spellbook, and Dust. The hands-on labs included in the course offer an opportunity to optimize results by creating effective prompts in the IBM Generative AI Classroom. You will also hear from practitioners about the tools and approaches used in prompt engineering and the art of writing effective prompts.
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This course is designed for everyone, including professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts, interested in learning about generative AI and leveraging its capabilities in their work and lives. This course is your first step toward understanding the capabilities of generative AI, powered by different models, including large language models (LLMs). In this course, you will learn about the fundamentals and evolution of generative AI. You will explore the capabilities of generative AI in different domains, including text, image, audio, video, virtual worlds, code, and data. You will understand the applications of generative AI across different sectors and industries. You will learn about the capabilities and features of common generative AI models and tools, such as GPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Synthesia. Hands-on labs, included in the course, provide an opportunity to explore the use cases of generative AI through IBM Generative AI Classroom and popular tools like ChatGPT. You will also hear from the practitioners about the capabilities, applications, and tools of generative AI.
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Generative AI is transforming the field of Software Engineering, making it a crucial skills for Developers to have in their toolkit. This IBM course "Generative AI for Software Developers" is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of how generative AI techniques can be applied to enhance software development processes. This course is designed to offer the necessary skills and knowledge needed to leverage AI-powered tools and algorithms to improve the efficiency of software development processes. Through a combination of videos, hands-on exercises, demos, and projects, you will learn how to leverage generative AI models to automate various aspects of software development, including code generation, design and architectures, bug detection, and optimization.   This course will also help you understand the ethical considerations that you should follow to use AI to its full potential. Enroll today to get the most out of AI for developing software and boost your career!
Taught by
Antonio Cangiano, Ramanujam Srinivasan and Rav Ahuja