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AI Agents Crash Course: Build with Python & OpenAI (Udemy.com)

Learn to build agentic AI solutions with Python, OpenAI SDK, AgentBuilder, tools, RAG, and guardrails - in just 4 hours!

Created by: Sundog Education by Frank Kane

Last updated October 2025

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What you will learn

  • Build functional AI agents using Python and the OpenAI SDK
  • Implement tool calling, memory, and streaming responses in your agents
  • Use prompt engineering and context engineering to control agent behavior
  • Integrate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using embedding databases
  • Enforce safety with guardrails and prompt adherence techniques
  • Orchestrate multi-agent systems with task decomposition and hand-offs
  • Deploy AI agents to the cloud with authentication and secure setup
  • Trace and debug agent behavior using OpenAI’s built-in tools

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Overall Score : 96 / 100

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Course Description

Building intelligent AI agents can feel overwhelming. Between OpenAI’s complex SDK, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool-calling, memory, and prompt engineering, it’s hard to know where to start.

This crash course is your shortcut: in just a few hours, you'll go from zero to deploying your own functional, real-world agentic AI system. You'll go hands-on building agentic AI systems with Python, and also visually in the no-code AgentBuilder environment.

You’ll build a smart nutrition assistant that:

  • Uses OpenAI’s Agents SDK and AgentKit to understand and respond to prompts

  • Calls external tools and APIs

  • Leverages memory and RAG for contextual intelligence

  • Includes guardrails to behave safely and reliably

  • Can be deployed to the cloud with authentication

Whether you're a developer, data scientist, or AI-curious engineer, this hands-on course gives you a complete end-to-end agentic AI foundation -- without getting buried in theory or outdated code.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to build AI agents with Python + OpenAI’s Agents SDK

  • Visually developing and deploying agentic systems with AgentKitAgentBuilderChatKit, and Evals

  • Tool calling, streaming, and tracing techniques

  • Best practices in prompt engineering and context design

  • How to integrate memory and RAG for deeper contextual reasoning

  • Deploying your agent securely with authentication and guardrails

  • How to build multi-agent systems with task delegation and parallel execution

Who This Course is For

  • Engineers and developers with basic Python experience

  • AI/ML professionals looking to quickly learn agent orchestration

  • Product builders and technical leads exploring agentic workflows

  • Learners who want to build, not just read about agents

About the Instructors

Your instructors combine deep industry experience with a passion for clear, actionable teaching.

Frank Kane spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, where he built large-scale recommender systems and led engineering teams. He holds 17 patents in machine learning and distributed systems and has taught over 1 million students through his company, Sundog Education.

Zoltan C. Toth brings over two decades of experience in AI infrastructure and data systems. As a former principal instructor and Solutions Architect Databricks and Data Engineering lead at startups, he’s helped companies around the world scale their analytics and AI platforms. Zoltan also teaches AI and data engineering at the Central European University.

Together, Frank and Zoltan guide you step-by-step through building agents the right way: with real code, real tools, and production-ready techniques.

Ready to build your first AI agent, fast?


Enroll now and start building today.

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Instructor Details

Sundog Education by Frank Kane

Sundog Education's mission is to make highly valuable career skills in data engineering, data science, generative AI, AWS, and machine learning accessible to everyone in the world. Our consortium of expert instructors shares our knowledge in these emerging fields with you, at prices anyone can afford. 

As a senior manager at Amazon during its early years, Frank Kane led large technical teams, managed multi-year projects, and served as a "bar-raiser" - interviewing thousands and hiring hundreds across the company.

Frank holds 26 issued patents in machine learning and personalization. After 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, he founded Sundog Education and has since taught over 1.1 million people in AI, ML, AWS, system design, and tech leadership. Frank has been teaching full-time for over 10 years - but is always building projects on the side with the latest emerging technologies, to better explain them to you!

Our teaching style is to simplify complex concepts - once you cut through all the notation and jargon, most of AI and machine learning is pretty easy to understand. We make these advanced topics accessible to anyone with a modest technical background, always using plain English and examples to drive it home. We make learning easy, hands-on, and fun.

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Reviews

4.8

652 ratings on Udemy

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By Subha Bala on 7/10/2026

very hands-on, with practical exercises that reinforced each concept immediately. The content was explained in great detail, making even the more complex topics easy to follow and apply

By Andrew Thornton on 5/19/2026

This is a great introduction and overview to build basic apps within OpenAI, and to create workflows with multiple agents. I enjoyed how the course was presented and it has been really valuable to me as an introduction to the topics

By Alex Ghajar on 4/13/2026

Amazing course with great lectures, great instructions, code and PDF of slides from all the video lectures. Great education and to the point. It covers not only the OpenAI Agent SDK but their Agent Builder (no code, n8n competitor).

By Neil Devgon on 1/22/2026

Fantastic Course! I've done a few of various depths and read a few books, this course really covered a wide range of AI topics and addressed them succinctly. Very impressed!

By Karen Champagne on 1/8/2026

I enjoyed the course. I could understand the concepts. The hands on exercises were helpful to know the code and concepts. However, I did get 429 error when running the multi-agent AI breakfast adviser.

By Pradeep chandra Vunnam on 12/26/2025

Good course and easy to grab the topic if you are familiar with python and chatbot basics. Course designed to understand the basics and have assignments to test the skills.

By Priyabrata on 12/21/2025

short and concise. to the point. I am in lecture 7, liked the way it is explained. Since I already knew about agent SDK, following was easy. but still I would recommend this course since in short time you will get many information. thank you for creating this course. I will share this in my network.

By Muhammad Zaki Ahmad on 12/20/2025

Explanations are good, Hands on are great. Having done other Agentic AI courses, this course truly serves the purpose of a crash course, condensing the 20% information to do 80% of the Agentic AI work.

By David Goedecke on 10/29/2025

It was a good, hands-on introduction to agentic AI. It did assume a lot of prior knowledge of Python and GitHub, and I believe the AgentKit section required a paid subscription to OpenAI. But if you want to get under the hood with AI agents, it was a very good starting point.

By Yasuhiro Miyado on 10/20/2025

This course is perfect for beginners learning about AI agents. Not only will you write the code for an AI agent, but you'll also learn how to deploy an agent app with a chat UI, so after taking this course you should be able to create a simple demo AI agent. OpenAI Agent Builder has a convenient UI but is not easy to use. In this course, you'll learn how to create an AI agent with the Agents SDK before tackling Agent Builder, which should help you understand the workflow more quickly.

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