AI coding agents are changing what it means to write software. Tasks that used to take an afternoon — tracing a bug across a large codebase, scaffolding a new service, reviewing a stack of pull requests — can now happen in a single focused session, with an agent that reads your code, runs your commands, and edits files alongside you. But getting real value from an agent requires more than installing it and typing a request. It requires understanding how the agent thinks, what context it has access to, and how to steer it when it heads in the wrong direction.
This course teaches developers how to use Claude Code effectively, whether you’re new to software engineering or an experienced engineer who hasn’t yet worked with AI coding agents. The course starts with principles — what an agentic loop actually is, how the context window shapes what Claude can see, how tools and permissions determine what it can do — so that the techniques later in the course make sense rather than feeling like a list of tricks to memorize.
