One-Day Translation Sprint for a Popular Prompt Engineering Course

What it does

The repository hosts unofficial Chinese-English bilingual subtitles for DeepLearning.AI’s “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers” course, along with the original Jupyter notebooks copied locally. It splits subtitles into separate Chinese and English tracks, and the maintainer synced the translated videos to Bilibili so viewers can follow along without wrestling with the original English audio. Think of it as a community localization layer for one of the most widely cited prompt-engineering tutorials.

The interesting bit

The maintainer claims to have translated the entire course in a single day, which either speaks to remarkable efficiency or the power of caffeine-fueled LLM assistance. Rather than building yet another prompt guide, the project treats accessibility as infrastructure: it removes friction for Chinese-speaking developers who want to learn directly from Ng and OpenAI’s Isa Fulford.

Key highlights

• Bilingual subtitles organized into combined, English-only, and Chinese-only folders
• Local copies of the course’s Jupyter notebooks under course_notebooks
• Video with subtitles hosted on Bilibili for streaming alongside the repo
• Accepts Pull Requests for translation errors and typos
• Released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Caveats

• The notebooks are copied from the original course, not rewritten or enhanced
• Translation quality is community-dependent; the README explicitly asks for PRs to fix errors
• It is an unofficial project with no affiliation to DeepLearning.AI or the original instructors

Verdict

Worth bookmarking if you are a Chinese-speaking developer who wants to take the Ng/Fulford prompt engineering course without the language barrier. Skip it if you already have the English originals or were hoping for original curriculum extensions.