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Working with the OpenAI API

Beginner 3 hours English Completion Certificate

What you'll learn

Authenticate and send requests to the OpenAI API in Python
Generate and transform text programmatically
Run sentiment analysis and classification
Build a simple chatbot with the chat endpoint
Control outputs with parameters like temperature and tokens
Handle API responses and errors cleanly

This course includes

3h
On-demand video
Yes
Certificate
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Mobile access
English
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Instructor

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James Chapman
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Taught by James Chapman, an AI Curriculum Manager at DataCamp, with a developer-first, build-as-you-learn approach.

Requirements

  • Intermediate Python knowledge

Who this course is for

  • Developers with intermediate Python
  • Engineers adding AI features to apps
  • Data professionals automating text tasks

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Frequently asked questions

Yes — this is a hands-on coding course that assumes intermediate Python. If you're new to Python, start there or take a non-technical AI course first.
Yes — building a simple chatbot is one of the projects, along with text generation and sentiment analysis using the OpenAI API.
The course is included with a DataCamp subscription, but calling OpenAI's API in your own projects later uses OpenAI's separate pay-as-you-go pricing.
About three hours of hands-on, in-browser coding.
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