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Claude Code: AI-Powered Software Development

5 Courses
4 Labs
5 Hours
Skill IQ

Learn to build software with Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent. Go beyond chatbot prompting to plan, generate, test, review, and ship code across the full development lifecycle. Use agentic workflows, context and memory management, and the governance practices teams need for production-grade products.

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Context, Memory, and the Agentic Loop

Manage what the agent knows: context, memory, tokens, and the agentic loop that drives multi-step work.

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What You'll Learn
  • Drive an agentic coding workflow end to end
  • Manage an agent's context, memory, and autonomy
  • Apply AI across the full development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
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  • \--- From Chatbots to Agents ---\
  • 1. AI Ready: Introduction to AI-assisted Development \
  • 2. Introduction to Claude Code \
  • 3. Agentic AI for Developers\
  • 4. Strengths and Limitations of Claude Code\
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  • -- Context, Memory, and the Agentic Loop ---\
  • 5. AI Ready: Claude Code in Practice\
  • 6. AI Ready: Claude Code in Practice Lab \
  • 7. Token Management and Memory in Claude Code \
  • 8. Token Management and Cost Optimization with Claude Code\
  • 9. Claude Code and the Agentic Loop \
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  • -- Extending and Integrating Claude Code ---\
  • 10. AI Ready: Advanced Claude Code \
  • 11. AI Ready: Advanced Claude Code Lab \
  • 12. Extending Claude Code with Plugins \
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  • -- AI Across the Development Lifecycle ---\
  • 13. AI Ready: Advanced AI-assisted Development \
  • 14. AI Ready: Advanced AI-assisted Development Lab \
  • 15. Applying Governance and Security in Claude Code\
  • 16. Claude Code Across the SDLC\
  • 17. Human-AI Agent Collaboration
Prerequisites
  • Software developers who have experience creating or maintaining applications and are comfortable interacting with chatbot-based generative AI tools. No experience with agentic tools required.
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