DataCamp's Become a Generative AI Developer series

DataCamp's "Become a Generative AI Developer" series is a collection of short, instructor-led code-alongs that teach practical generative AI development skills directly in the browser. Each session runs one to two hours and combines a video walkthrough with a live coding environment on DataLab, DataCamp's cloud-based Jupyter notebook IDE, so learners write and run real code rather than only watching. The nine-part series covers the core generative AI toolchain — the OpenAI API, LangChain, Pinecone, and Hugging Face — through projects like building a chatbot with long-term memory, a semantic search engine, a retrieval-augmented movie recommender, and an image captioning system, taught by instructors from Microsoft, Pinecone, and Imperial College London. It assumes intermediate Python knowledge and is aimed at developers adding generative AI skills to an existing programming background rather than complete beginners.