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About the Course

AI Agents Are the Next Leap in Software. Learn to Build Them in Python. AI agents aren't passive tools. They think, act, and solve problems—without waiting for instructions. That's the future of software. And in this course, you'll learn how to build it. Frameworks come and go. Principles last. This course cuts through the noise to teach you how AI agents really work—using Python, the leading language for AI development. Forget tutorials on trendy APIs that'll be dead by next quarter. You'll learn to build AI agents from the ground up. No fluff. No shortcuts. Just the core architecture that powers intelligent systems—knowledge that stays useful no matter how fast the landscape shifts. In this course, you will: - Master Python-based agent architectural fundamentals - Understand the core GAME components (Goals, Actions, Memory, Environment) that make AI agents tick and how they work together in a cohesive Python system - Leverage Python's strengths for efficient agent development - Use Python's dynamic typing, decorators, and metaprogramming to create flexible, maintainable agent frameworks with minimal boilerplate code - Rapidly prototype and implement Python agents - Learn techniques to quickly design Python agent capabilities with prompt engineering before writing a single line of code, then efficiently translate your designs into working Python implementations - Connect Python AI agents to real-world systems - Build Python agents that can interact with file systems, APIs, and other external services - Create Python-powered tool-using AI assistants - Develop Python agents that can analyze files, manage data, and automate complex workflows by combining LLM reasoning with Python's extensive libraries and ecosystem - Build Python developer productivity agents - Create specialized Python agents that help you write code, generate tests, and produce documentation to accelerate your software development process Why Principles Matter More Than Frameworks The AI landscape is changing weekly, but the core principles of agent design remain constant. By understanding how to build agents from scratch, you'll gain: - Transferable knowledge that works across any LLM or AI technology Deep debugging skills because you'll understand what's happening at every level - Framework independence that frees you from dependency on third-party libraries and allows you to succeed with any of them - Future-proof expertise that will still be relevant when today's popular tools are long forgotten By the end of this course, you won't just know how to use AI agents—you'll know how to build them in Python, customize them, and deploy them to solve real business problems. This course will teach you these concepts using OpenAI's APIs, which require paid access, but the principles and techniques can be adapted to other LLMs....

Top reviews

JE

Sep 23, 2025

Excellent course, well-paced, a variety of non-boring delivery methods and practical examples in code.

AS

Mar 27, 2025

This is a great course to understand how AI agents work and how to build them efficiently. Very engaging and practical course.

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By Vũ T H

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Nov 20, 2025

Very good

By 谷玉龙

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Aug 17, 2025

very good

By Ricardo P

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Apr 14, 2025

Excellent

By Садуакасова Г М

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Apr 17, 2025

отличнно

By Jose S

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Aug 4, 2025

Cool !

By Madhav B

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Dec 22, 2025

Good

By Rakesh R

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Nov 13, 2025

nice

By Patel p b

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Oct 7, 2025

good

By Akshay R

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Jul 30, 2025

good

By Javier D J T

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Apr 1, 2025

Good

By Chandrasekhar S

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Nov 26, 2025

yes

By Ачилов У К

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Oct 19, 2025

да

By Avinash C

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Aug 25, 2025

Ok

By Damira A

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Apr 1, 2025

а

By Justin F

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Aug 2, 2025

You will need intermediate level Python coding experience (OOP in particular) to understand the topics, so it's not at the beginner level. Also the documents could be in a better order or written with more clarity. Other than that, the course shows you the ease with which AI agents can be created by mixing a LLM with a python coding framework that you can build from scratch. Quite amazing!

By Peter J K

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Sep 6, 2025

I really enjoyed this course by Prof. Jules White. It goes "behind the curtain" of how agentic AI is built through the "system", "user", and "assistant" prompt loop. One thing that would make the course 5 stars is if there were more graded assignments, including peer-graded homework.

By Kaihaan J

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Jun 8, 2025

Good examples - although they make you work a bit to really get them working.

By Paritosh K

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Aug 24, 2025

its good for those students which are beginners in ai

By Jari v d M

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May 8, 2025

awesome!

By Aditya

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Nov 30, 2025

valued

By Sekar A

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Aug 16, 2025

good

By Nikolai G

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Aug 4, 2025

The course presents useful concepts, but I encountered two inconveniences: 1. Although the course is marked as suitable for beginners familiar with Python, in module 3 there is a large AI agent project composed of an unstructured list of classes. It took time to analyze and draw a UML diagram to understand all the relationships in this core module of the AI agent. 2. For this course, I chose to use LLM models running locally on my machine via Ollama (models: Magicoder, GPT, LLaMA3). I ran the course code locally, and each time I faced issues during the agent loop execution—often the LLM failed to stay within the tool-based narrative set by the prompts. I don’t know how it would perform using the OpenAI API.

By Meng-Chow K

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Nov 18, 2025

Lots of reading on your own and trying out the code on your own. Not what I expected.

By Ciara D

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Dec 4, 2025

Needs more diagrams