Beginner Challenges

Introduction

Short, focused challenges to apply the basics. Pick one a day for a week.

Beginner analogy: Like LeetCode for prompts.

Understanding the topic

Core concepts to understand:

• Summarise a news article in 3 bullets, JSON.
• Convert prose into a Markdown table.
• Extract entities (name, date, amount) from a paragraph.
• Rewrite a casual message into formal email tone.
• Generate 5 product taglines under 10 words each.

Syntax reference

Visual workflow / architecture:

Daily challenge → write prompt → measure → improve → log

Real-world use

Every prompt engineer has done these. Mastery is doing them well, not just doing them.

Best practices

• Keep your daily log.
• Try each on two models — compare.
• Focus on format adherence.

Hands-on exercise

Interview preparation — practice these questions:

• Q1. How approach entity extraction?
• Q2. JSON consistency tricks?
• Q3. Tone conversion patterns?
• Q4. Generating variants?