Claude Code Full Course: How Senior Engineers Build with AI

Anyone Can Prompt an AI to Write Code. Few Know How to Steer It. 🧠

Ask an AI coding tool for a feature and you may get something that works, or something that quietly breaks three other files. The gap between those outcomes is not luck. It is workflow. This course of about two and a half hours shows how experienced engineers set up, guide and verify AI-assisted work, so you ship faster without losing control of your codebase.

Foundations: start with the right mental model

After a short introduction, you learn the core concepts behind Claude Code: how it reads your project, how it takes actions and why context matters. This is the groundwork that makes every later feature click.

CLAUDE.md: teach it your project once

Instead of repeating the same instructions in every session, you write a CLAUDE.md file that captures your conventions, commands and preferences. It is one of the highest-value habits in the course.

Permissions: stay in control

A dedicated section covers permissions, so you decide what the AI can read, edit and run. It is the safety layer that lets you trust the tool with real projects.

Plan Mode: think before building

You see how Plan Mode helps you review an approach before any code changes. This is where many senior engineers save the most time, because bad plans get caught early.

Skills and reusable workflows

Learn how to package repeated tasks into skills and reusable workflows, so your best processes become one-step commands.

Ship the Store: a real build

Theory turns into practice as you build and ship a complete project, “the store,” applying everything learned so far.

Subagents and parallel work

The course closes by showing how subagents can handle tasks in parallel, plus a “Go further” section with next steps for deeper mastery.

A realistic note

AI coding tools speed up development, but you should still review every change, run tests and understand what you ship. Features and interfaces evolve quickly, so some steps may look different when you try them.

Who is it for?

Developers, students, indie hackers, engineering teams and anyone who wants to build software faster with AI assistance.

Follow along in your own project, start with a CLAUDE.md file and build your own workflow one step at a time. 🚀