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The next big wave of digital transformation is being driven by agentic AI. Rather than simply answering questions or generating content, it can perform complex, multi-step tasks with minimal human intervention.
AI agents can perform a wide range of tasks, from assisting with everyday tasks to creating and automating new business processes. And if that sounds like it could be useful, the best part is that just about anyone can do it.
This is because agents can be built using the same no-code, natural-language process as interacting with ChatGPT. You simply describe what it is that you want your agent to do, and like magic, it happens.
Well, that’s the theory, but in reality, it might not always be so simple!
Luckily, there are a growing number of resources online for anyone who wants to dive into the subject, whatever their level of experience or interest.
So here are some of the best websites, tutorials and courses for getting started building and using agents.
The Complete Agentic AI Engineering Course (Udemy)
In-depth course for those looking to put agentic AI to work commercially or in a professional setting. Assignments include building agent applications using OpenAI’s agentic SDK framework as well as other tools and applications. This is an in-depth course for those who want to create their own tools and applications, which tasks students to complete eight different projects based on real-world AI agent use cases.
From Zero To Your First AI Agent In 25 Minutes (YouTube)
A short tutorial video that acts as both an introduction to the concept of agents and then walks through the process of creating a simple one. It also covers the subject of safety and guard rails, which are always best built in from the beginning, no matter how simple or experimental your agentic idea is.
Agentic AI: A Primer For Leaders (Coursera)
This is a more business-focused course aimed at developing skills around spotting opportunities and evaluating use cases for agentic AI within organizations. However, there are also practical assignments involving building and deploying AI agents.
AI Agents For Everyone (Udemy)
Another of the leading agentic courses provided through Udemy, this one provides a rounded overview, taking in practical applications as well as addressing ethical and regulatory issues. Learners get a grounding in autoGPT, one of the most popular open-source frameworks that brings agentic functionality to GPT-4 via API.
AI Agents Full Course (Youtube)
This course starts from the very basics by defining agents and exploring early use cases and progresses right through to monetizing your own agents or applying for work in the field of agentic AI. It consists of 10 hours of video made freely available on YouTube, covering leading agentic platforms, tools and services, including Manus.ai and Hugging Face.
AI Agents For Beginners (Youtube)
10 video lessons from Microsoft Developer aimed at those who have some development experience but want a more comprehensive grounding in theory and practice.
Hugging Face is a vast library of AI models supported by a big community of AI experts and enthusiasts. It provides extensive learning resources, and one of the most popular right now is the Agents Course. Consisting of live-streamed sessions as well as video content, a big draw is the collaborative learning environment that lets users explore and interact with models and datasets in groups.
Vibe Coding is a recently coined term used to describe the low-stress, hassle-free approach to development that working with AI agents can hopefully engender. This free, short course available on Andrew Ng’s Deeplearning.ai platform works as an introduction to harnessing agentic AI in order to achieve this status. After completing the seven lessons, you’ll understand how agents can be used to streamline, simplify and improve accessibility at every step of the development process.
Langchain For LLM Application Development (deeplearning.ai)
This is a slightly more technical course for agentic AI developers wanting to get started with the Langchain framework. This is an open-source framework that includes agentic functionality, and this course is developed and taught by Andrew Ng, founder of Google Brain and Coursera (among other achievements).
This is an in-depth course for those ready to get their hands dirty learning to build enterprise-ready agentic applications. It involves live sessions with industry experts, although they can all be accessed as recordings if you miss one. This is an eight-week course starting in July or October, so this isn’t study-at-your-own-pace like a lot of online courses. Knowledge of Python is required for this one.
Develop AI Agents On Azure (Microsoft)
This learning path taken from Microsoft’s Learn platform is totally free and aims to help anyone with no prior knowledge to deploy cloud-based AI agents through Azure. Students are introduced to the Azure AI Foundry service and tasked with developing their own agent. Next, learn how to get it to integrate with third-party and custom tools to create sophisticated and powerful agentic workflows.
Upskilling For The Agentic Era
As you can see, there’s no shortage of material available online for anyone wanting to learn about agents at whatever level.
It’s a very new field, however, and new tools, platforms and applications are emerging every day, so it’s always worth checking that any course you’re thinking about taking is up-to-date.
While they may be simple to get working, the real key to success with agents will be applying them to the right problems.
That’s why the most useful courses don’t just show you how to build agents. They teach you how to use them strategically in order to drive efficiency, innovation and growth.
