Day 1 · Foundations and Prompting

The slides

All 57 slides for today. Arrow keys to move, F for full screen, and a countdown on every break slide.

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The lab

Seven tasks, all of them inside Claude. Your notes save in this browser.

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Pre-program MAP test

Eight minutes at 09:00, before we teach anything. No pass mark, and your score is not shared.

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The plan

09:00 to 14:00 · four breaks

09:0009:25

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Pre-program MAP test. The question you answer out loud.

09:2510:10

Section 1 · AI and LLMs

What AI is, what a language model is, the tool landscape, why you should care, and where it fails. Task 1.

10:1010:25

Break

The deck has a countdown. Pick 10 or 15 minutes on the day.

10:2511:15

Section 2 · Prompting

Two prompts, one task. The six parts. Zero-shot and few-shot. Tasks 2 and 3.

11:1511:30

Break

Pick 10 or 15 minutes.

11:3012:10

Section 3 · Professional writing

The three repair moves, in English and Arabic. Tasks 4 and 5.

12:1012:55

Lunch and prayer

The deck has a 45 or 60 minute countdown.

12:5513:20

Section 4 · Research and summarizing

Give it the source. The summarizing brief. Task 6.

13:2013:30

Break

Pick 10 or 15 minutes.

13:3013:50

Section 5 · Email

What Claude does with your inbox. Task 7, tame the thread.

13:5013:58

Connectors and MCP

Live demo. Flexible block, moves to Day 2 if we run late.

13:5814:00

The task you said you dreaded. Name your prompt library.

The seven tasks

All seven inside Claude

01First contactYour first useful result. Nine starters, one of them in Arabic.In Claude→02Build a full promptSix fields, a stand-in document, and a prompt you assemble.In Claude→03Show, do not describeZero-shot against few-shot on the same task.In Claude→04Rewrite it, tone and lengthOne paragraph, six commands, all in the same chat.In Claude→05Draft a professional documentThree briefs. Pick one and write something you would send.In Claude→06Summarize and verifyAn operations report with five deliberate faults.In Claude→07Tame the threadFive messages, four people, and the reply you owe.In Claude→

What you leave with

Bring all three tomorrow

An improved document

Cut, sharpened, and aimed at a named reader. From task 5.

A research summary

One page, with every number traced back to the source. From task 6.

Five reusable prompts

Named so you can find them again, with your own paste rule at the top.

What to bring

Before 09:00

A laptop you can install nothing on, but can open a browser withRequired

A Claude account, signed in and workingRequired

Nothing else. Every document in the labs is supplied and inventedNote

Do not paste anything real from your own work today. The rules come at 13:25Important