Glossary term
What is Context?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Context" means: Everything the assistant can see for your request right now: your prompt, the earlier messages in the chat and any text or files you added. It is taught in ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work, React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps and Prompt Engineering Essentials.
- 3 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Context?
Everything the assistant can see for your request right now: your prompt, the earlier messages in the chat and any text or files you added. (From ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work. 2 other courses define it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Context mean in ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work?
Everything the assistant can see for your request right now: your prompt, the earlier messages in the chat and any text or files you added.
What does Context mean in React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps?
A way to share a value with every component below a point in the tree, without passing props through each level.
What does Context mean in Prompt Engineering Essentials?
The background facts and source text you put in a prompt so the model does not have to guess.
Where is Context taught?
Context is defined in ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work, React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps and Prompt Engineering Essentials.
ChatGPT and AI Assistants at WorkReact and Next.js: Build Modern Web AppsPrompt Engineering Essentials
Which lessons cover Context?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps, lesson 3.3: Context: share state without passing props down every level
- Prompt Engineering Essentials, lesson 1.4: The Five Parts of a Good Prompt
- Prompt Engineering Essentials, lesson 2.2: Give the Context the Model Cannot Guess
- Prompt Engineering Essentials, lesson 2.4: Let the Model Ask You Questions First
- Prompt Engineering Essentials, lesson 6.4: Assemble, Version and Maintain Your Library
Which terms are related to Context?
Next to Context in the course glossaries: Hallucination, Context window, Model, Temporary chat, Response, Memory, Prompt, Custom instructions, Reducer and Effect.
HallucinationContext windowModelTemporary chatResponseMemoryPromptCustom instructionsReducerEffect
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Context?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner and intermediate level:
- ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work: No coding, statistics or earlier AI experience needed.
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps: Basic JavaScript: you can write a function, use variables with const and let, work with arrays and objects, and have seen map and filter. Modules 1 and 2 explain destructuring and spread the first time they appear.
- Prompt Engineering Essentials: No coding, statistics or prior AI experience needed.