Maximize Your Claude Code Programming Productivity

Course details

Claude Code is exploding across the development landscape. What began as a model optimized for developers has sprouted an ever-expanding set of tools for creating, managing, integrating, and deploying software. Learn to plan and implement sophisticated, AI-driven workflows that go beyond basic code prompting. Discover the essential skills to set up an optimized UI design system, effortlessly incorporating Figma designs into your projects. Hone your skills in test-driven development to ensure code quality and robustness in any development pipeline. Delve into developer-focused environments, setting up MCP servers for seamless integration across platforms like GitHub and Jira. Elevate your coding with the creation of automated, intelligent agents designed to enhance your development ecosystem. Perfect for developers already familiar with Claude Code, this course is tailored to boost productivity and innovation within your existing workflows.

Learning objectives
Design structured AI workflows using multistep plans, Skills, MCP servers, and managed agents to move beyond simple prompting.
Apply AI‑driven testing and quality practices including TDD, unit, integration, smoke, and automated UAT in modern development pipelines.
Create production-ready front‑end and product experiences by integrating designs, component libraries, and PRDs with Claude Code.
Integrate Claude Code across the developer toolchain by connecting GitHub, Jira, data platforms, observability tools, and documentation systems.
Adapt to the evolving role of developers by leveraging AI agents for coding, data analysis, reporting, and decision-making at scale.

Concepts

Introduction

Accelerate development with Claude Code

Core Prompting, Planning, and Testing

Why prompting breaks down at scale
Design systems with Claude Code
Diagram software architecture with AI
Create testing guidelines for Claude.md
Run and monitor multistep plans
Choose prompts vs. multistep plans

Using Skills and Claude MD Files

Extending Claude with Skills, MCP, and Plugins
Improve object-oriented design with Skills
Create reusable Claude MD files
Craft a custom Claude Skill
Build an expense app with Skills

Setting Up a UI Design System with Claude Code

Build UIs from screenshots
Convert Figma designs into code
Integrate component libraries
Working with Claude design
Building a polished typing app with Claude Code

Defining and Iterating on Product Requirements

The importance of product skills for developers
Specification-driven development (SDD)
Create an application using SDD
Define a spec Skill
Automate user acceptance testing from specs
Comparing different SDD standards

Test-Driven Development with Claude Code

TDD in an agent-driven workflow
Create and manage unit tests
Build integration tests that matter
Design fast, reliable smoke tests

Setting Up Developer-Focused MCP Servers

Implement tasks with Jira through MCP
Developer workflows with GitHub MCP
Query DuckDB through MCP
Investigate incidents with Datadog MCP
Manage product work with Linear MCP
Automate documentation with Notion MCP

Building Agents with Claude Code

Agents in Claude Code
Run Claude Code on the web
Working with Claude Code subagents
Create a code reviewer agent
Build a DevOps agent

Shortcuts and Claude Code Workflows

Create automation with scheduled loops and routines
Programmatic verification with hooks
Automate pull requests
Using Claude Code goals

Building Dashboards and Data Analysis with Claude Code

Generate database analysis reports
Build Jupyter Notebooks with Claude
Analyze data within Excel
Automate data-driven presentations

Conclusion

Where to go next with Claude Code