Mastering Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's official AI-powered command-line interface for software engineering. It puts a highly capable AI agent directly in your terminal, where it can read your codebase, write and edit files, run commands, search the web, and orchestrate complex multi-step workflows. Unlike chat-based AI tools that require constant copy-pasting, Claude Code operates natively in your development environment. This course takes you from your very first installation through to building production-grade automation pipelines, ensuring you extract maximum value from every feature the tool offers.

Module I -- Foundations (Lessons 1-4): Start by installing Claude Code and running your first interactive session. You will learn the permission system that keeps you in control, then master CLAUDE.md project memory files that give Claude persistent context about your codebase, conventions, and workflows. From there, you will explore the full catalog of slash commands for managing sessions, reviewing diffs, and tracking costs, and finally discover skills -- the auto-invoked markdown instructions that let Claude adapt its behavior to your project without any manual triggering.

Module II -- Automation and Integration (Lessons 5-8): Move beyond interactive use and start wiring Claude Code into your development infrastructure. Hooks let you run scripts automatically when Claude reads files, writes code, or finishes a task, giving you guardrails, auto-formatting, and validation for free. MCP servers connect Claude to live external data -- GitHub pull requests, databases, Slack channels, browser automation -- through a standardized protocol. Subagents let you delegate parallel research, isolated exploration, and specialized tasks to focused AI agents that report back to the main session.

Module III -- Advanced and Production (Lessons 9-14): Take your Claude Code skills to the professional level. You will build custom plugins that bundle skills, hooks, MCP servers, and slash commands into shareable packages. You will integrate Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines for automated code review, test generation, and deployment validation. You will learn advanced prompting patterns, context window management, multi-model strategies, and the headless SDK for programmatic control. The course concludes with a capstone project where you build a complete developer workflow that ties every concept together into a polished, production-ready system.

Whether you are a solo developer looking to ship faster, a team lead standardizing AI-assisted workflows, or an engineer building internal tooling on top of Claude Code, this course gives you the practical knowledge and hands-on experience to become a true power user.