OpenAI Assistants API – Course for Beginners

This beginner course teaches how to build applications with the OpenAI Assistants API using Python. Learners create assistants for personal training, news summarization, and study support, including function calling, retrieval tools, embeddings, and Streamlit interfaces.

Syllabus

⌨️ Introduction
⌨️ What’s This Course About - What Will You Learn?
⌨️ Pre-requisites
⌨️ Python and Dev tools Set up
⌨️ VS Code Installation
⌨️ OpenAI Account - Generate an API Key
⌨️ What is the Assistants API & Benefits - Comparison Between the Chat Completion API and the Assistants API
⌨️ Assistants API Building Blocks
⌨️ Creating an Assistants API - Manually Personal Trainer
⌨️ Creating an Assistants API - In Code Personal Trainer
⌨️ Build a News Summarizer Introduction: Function Calling - A Streamlit Application
⌨️ Create an AssistantsManager Class For our News Summarizer
⌨️ Using the AssistantManager Class to Create an Assistant and run it as a Streamlit App
⌨️ Knowledge Bases Retrieval Tools - How it Works & Introduction to Embeddings
⌨️ Build a Study Buddy Streamlit Application
⌨️ Run the Study Buddy Streamlit Application and Test
⌨️ Wrap up and Final Considerations.