AI Prompt Engineering Absolute Beginner's Guide
Published on 16. December 2025
272 pages
978-0-13-557054-8 (ISBN)
Description
Master the art of AI prompting to unlock the full potential of generative AI tools for enhanced creativity and productivity
AI Prompt Engineering Absolute Beginner's Guide, by best-selling author Michael Miller (writer of 200+ practical tech books), teaches readers how to craft effective prompts that unlock the full power of generative AI. You'll learn what generative AI can (and can't) do, why well-structured prompts matter, and how to craft them step-by-step for the results you actually want.
This approachable guide walks you through the anatomy of a great prompt--defining clear goals, outputs, constraints, tone, and style--then builds your skills with proven prompting strategies. You'll also learn how to evaluate prompt performance, troubleshoot underperforming prompts, and refine your prompts with iterative techniques. Even better, you'll learn how to construct prompts for specific tasks (productivity, writing, image generation, and more) and take advantage of a large library of prompt templates.
Whether you are a casual user or a professional in content creation, marketing, education, or tech, this book helps you unlock the full power of today's AI tools. With practical examples and real-world use cases, you will learn how to evaluate performance, refine and iterate, troubleshoot weak outputs, and use AI responsibly.
This book will help you with:
Understanding how generative AI works and why prompts matter
Structuring the anatomy of clear, specific, goal-oriented prompts
Defining outputs, constraints, tone, and style to guide results
Applying zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompting techniques
Using chain-of-thought and self-consistency to improve reasoning
Adopting role- and persona-based prompting for better context
Building prompt chains and multimodal prompts (text, image, video)
Evaluating prompt performance and iterating for improvement
Generating higher-quality text, images, and videos for real use cases
Troubleshooting weak outputs and practicing responsible, ethical prompting
AI Prompt Engineering Absolute Beginner's Guide, by best-selling author Michael Miller (writer of 200+ practical tech books), teaches readers how to craft effective prompts that unlock the full power of generative AI. You'll learn what generative AI can (and can't) do, why well-structured prompts matter, and how to craft them step-by-step for the results you actually want.
This approachable guide walks you through the anatomy of a great prompt--defining clear goals, outputs, constraints, tone, and style--then builds your skills with proven prompting strategies. You'll also learn how to evaluate prompt performance, troubleshoot underperforming prompts, and refine your prompts with iterative techniques. Even better, you'll learn how to construct prompts for specific tasks (productivity, writing, image generation, and more) and take advantage of a large library of prompt templates.
Whether you are a casual user or a professional in content creation, marketing, education, or tech, this book helps you unlock the full power of today's AI tools. With practical examples and real-world use cases, you will learn how to evaluate performance, refine and iterate, troubleshoot weak outputs, and use AI responsibly.
This book will help you with:
Understanding how generative AI works and why prompts matter
Structuring the anatomy of clear, specific, goal-oriented prompts
Defining outputs, constraints, tone, and style to guide results
Applying zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompting techniques
Using chain-of-thought and self-consistency to improve reasoning
Adopting role- and persona-based prompting for better context
Building prompt chains and multimodal prompts (text, image, video)
Evaluating prompt performance and iterating for improvement
Generating higher-quality text, images, and videos for real use cases
Troubleshooting weak outputs and practicing responsible, ethical prompting
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
7,06 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-13-557054-8 (9780135570548)
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Michael Miller
AI Prompt Engineering Absolute Beginner's Guide
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12/2025
Addison Wesley
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Michael Miller has written more than 200 non-fiction books over the past three decades. Collectively, his books have sold more than a million copies worldwide. His best-selling books for Que include My iPad for Seniors, My Video Chat for Seniors, My TV for Seniors, My Social Media for Seniors, My Facebook for Seniors, My Smart Home for Seniors, My Samsung Galaxy S7 for Seniors, Computer Basics: Absolute Beginner's Guide, and Easy Computer Basics.
