Claude Code for Professionals
By Ranbeer Makin
About this Course
Learn how to use Claude Code as an AI-powered software development partner—from understanding an existing codebase and planning changes to writing, testing, reviewing, and shipping code.
This course goes beyond basic prompting. You'll learn how to work with skills, subagents, MCP servers, plugins, hooks, and project instructions to build reliable development workflows while keeping humans firmly in the loop.
Through hands-on examples and a live build, you'll learn how to integrate Claude Code into real-world software development—from working in large codebases to using guardrails, automated testing, code review, and GitHub workflows.
About the Instructor
Ranbeer Makin is passionate about helping working professionals confidently adopt AI. He has already trained 250+ learners through hands-on workshops and practical courses. As a software entrepreneur with 18+ years of experience, he now focuses on helping professionals move from AI Curious to AI Capable by teaching practical workflows, automation, and real-world AI applications.
What You'll Learn
- Understand the Claude Code harness and how skills, plugins, subagents,
CLAUDE.md, and hooks extend its capabilities - Use the three core workflows: explore → plan → code, TDD, and screenshot → iterate
- Work with Claude Code inside the Claude app or directly from the terminal
- Configure models, effort levels, permissions, authentication, and development environments
- Give Claude Code the right context and instructions for your codebase
- Extend Claude Code with MCP servers, subagents, plugins, and shortcuts
- Build features using plan mode, reusable skills, and persistent plans
- Use Claude Code for testing, code review, and GitHub issues
- Add hooks as guardrails to control what Claude Code can access and automate repetitive checks
- Develop an effective human + AI software development approach
- Optimize token usage, workflows, and the human role when working with coding agents
- Apply these practices to large and complex codebases
Who Is This Course For?
This course is for software professionals, developers, engineering leaders, and AI practitioners who want to move beyond using AI for code generation and learn how to build reliable, AI-assisted software development workflows with Claude Code.
Course Outcome
You'll be able to move beyond using AI to simply generate code and instead design a development workflow where Claude Code can explore, reason, implement, test, review, and iterate—with the right human oversight and guardrails.
Course Content
- 1Claude Code harness: skills, plugins, subagents, CLAUDE.md, hooks
- 2The three core Claude Code workflows (explore-plan-code, TDD, screenshot iterate)
- 3Claude Code inside the Claude app (no IDE needed)
- 4Claude Code in the terminal: install, models, effort, permission modes, login
- 1CLAUDE.md and asking questions about your code
- 2MCP servers, subagents, plugins and shortcuts
- 1Live build, part 1: skills, plan mode and writing the plan to a file
- 2Testing, Code Review and GitHub Issues with Claude Code
- 3Hooks as guardrails (block .env reads, auto-run Prettier)
- 1Development approach and the advisor strategy
- 2Best practices, token optimization and the human role
- 1Large codebase resource
- 2Your Claude Code Setup
- Claude Code Guide
- Session 4: Quiz 1: Claude Code