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AI Agents for Beginners

Microsoft's free 12-lesson course on building AI agents — covers GenAI design patterns from basics.

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Microsoft's free 12-lesson course walks through AI agent fundamentals: tool use, planning, RAG, multi-agent, evaluation. Each lesson has code samples in Python and TypeScript. The best structured on-ramp for new agent developers.

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