AI Agents in Java with Generative AI
Vanderbilt University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Dr. Jules White
Data ScienceComputer Science
About the course
AI Agents Are the Next Leap in Software. Learn to Build Them in Java. AI agents aren’t passive tools. They think, act, and solve problems—without waiting for instructions. That’s the future of software. And in this course, you’ll learn how to build it. Frameworks come and go. Principles last. This course cuts through the noise to teach you how AI agents really work—using rock-solid Java. Forget tutorials on trendy APIs that’ll be dead by next quarter. You’ll learn to build AI agents from the
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (1 vote, 1.0★).
“For me this has been mostly a waste of time. This course might be right for someone who plans to write a framework for building AI agents. This is what teaches. At least the beginnings of such a framework. But who wants to do that? There is langchain4j. What I need is a course on langchain4j agentic system. Using a established framework much, much more ground on agents could have been covered in the time necessary to complete this course.”
Coursera's 4.2 comes from 26 ratings. Of those, 15.4% are 1–2★.
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