claude-code-coursera

Notes for Coursera course "Claude Code: Software Engineering with Generative AI Agents"

Table of Contents

• Module 1: Scaling Up Software Engineering with Claude Code & Generative AI
  • 1000X Improvement in Software Engineering Productivity with Big Prompts
  • Exercise: Getting Started with Claude Code & Building Your First Application
• Module 2: Leveraging the Software Engineering Advantages of Claude Code
  • AI Labor: Claude Code is an AI Development Team
  • The Best of N Pattern: Leverage AI Labor Cost Advantages
    • Sample alternative implementation
• Module 3: Generation AI, Claude Code, & Code Quality
  • Can AI Judge Code Quality?
  • Why Code Evaluation Matters for AI Development
    • Sample Prompt for evaluating three different implementations
  • Does AI Labor Understand Design Principles?
  • Chat, Craft, Scale: Spend More Time Designing & Innovating
    • Chat - thinking about the requirements
  • Craft: Constraints & Prompts for Claude Code
• Module 4: Building Process & Context in Claude Code
  • Global Persistent Context: CLAUDE.md
  • Writing CLAUDE.md Files
  • Reusable Targeted Context & Process: Claude Code Commands
  • Creating Claude Commands
  • In-Context Learning: Teaching with Examples
  • Exercise: Building a Documentation Generator
• Module 5: Version Control and Parallel Development with Claude Code
  • AI Makes Mistakes: Git Branches
  • Allowing Claude Code to Work in Parallel with Git Worktrees
  • Claude Subagents & Tasks
  • Parallel Feature Development with Subagents, Tasks, and Git Worktrees
• Module 6: Improving Claude Code Scalability & Reasoning
  • Being Claude Code's Hands, Eyes, and Ears
  • Ensuring Claude Code Checks Its Own Work
  • AI Labor Scalability: Software Design, Token Limits, and Maintainability
    • Token limits on input & output
  • Having Claude Code Think & Plan First
  • Project Structure and File Naming is Critical Context for Claude Code Scalability
• Module 7: Multimodal Prompting & Process
  • Exercise: From Coffee-Stained Napkin to Production Code with Multimodal Prompting
  • Start By Fixing the Process & Context, Not the Code
    • Programming the AI labor

Additional Resources

• Claude Code Repo Commands - reusable prompts
• Claude Skills Guide - Creating custom Claude skills (newer feature, not covered in course)
• Writing Effective Prompts for Claude Code - Comprehensive guide to crafting effective prompts generated by Claude Code