How to elicit step-by-step reasoning with chain-of-thought prompts

Study Thinkpath, prompt patterns that improve multi-step reasoning and reduce silent errors with chain-of-thought, scratchpads, self-check, decomposition.

  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Parts 10
  • Stack chain-of-thought, scratchpads, self-check, decomposition

What you are learning

Thinkpath is prompt patterns that improve multi-step reasoning and reduce silent errors. The teaching focus is Reasoning (chain-of-thought, scratchpads, self-check, decomposition).

Work in order. Early parts set vocabulary and environment; later parts assume the earlier checkpoints.

How to use these lessons

Read the goal, open the matching GitHub folder, complete the lab or exercises, then return for the explanation. If a command fails, check you are in the numbered folder first.

Open the Thinkpath GitHub repo โ†’

Parts in order

Each chapter below is one checkpoint in this track.