Midterm exam

The midterm exam will be held in class on Tuesday, Oct. 21.

The exam will be mostly concepts based, with a little bit of code writing mixed in.

The exam will cover chapters 1-6 in the textbook.

Topics for the exam

Here are some things you should review for the exam:

• How to construct an appropriate prompt for an LLM to get it to do tasks like summarization, categorization, or question answering.
• How to control the text that the LLM returns from a prompt.
• How to use a PromptTemplate to construct a prompt, send it to the LLM for processing, and how to read the text that comes back.
• What role do python dictionaries play in LangChain and LangGraph?
• How do you construct a graph in LangGraph?
• What is RAG? How can a vector database help you build a RAG pipeline?