AI Coding Bootcamp with Claude Code Online (Self-Paced)

This course teaches you to build real web applications with Claude Code while developing a solid foundation in modern development workflows, with no prior coding experience needed. You'll progress through practical lessons on prompting, planning, coding, debugging, design, security, and deployment, building your projects section by section as you go.

At the heart of the course is an evolving sequence of app-building work that starts with project scaffolding and grows into a full-stack notes application, complete with authentication, database integration, API features, design improvements, and deployment. By the time you finish, you'll have a polished project ready to share in a portfolio or carry forward as the foundation for future work.

What You Will Learn

• Use Claude Code as a practical coding assistant for planning, editing, debugging, and shipping apps
• Build confidence with Git, GitHub, and collaborative development workflows
• Understand how modern web apps fit together across frontend, backend, APIs, and deployment
• Create full-stack projects using Next.js, Supabase, authentication, and third-party APIs
• Strengthen app quality through responsive design, accessibility, testing, and security practices
• Deploy a finished application with environment variables, a custom domain, and launch-ready polish

Course Outline

Section 1: Welcome & Orientation

• Get set up and ready to build
• Welcome to the Course
• What is Vibe Coding?
• Course Structure & Overview
• What You'll Build
• How Claude Code Works
• What is Claude Code?
• Chat vs. Code Mode
• Installing Claude Code
• Desktop App Tour
• Bonus: Using Claude Code in VS Code

Section 2: Git, GitHub & Claude Code Tools

• Version control, the terminal, and core Claude Code settings
• Git & GitHub
• The Terminal & How Claude Uses It
• CLAUDE.md
• Permission Modes
• Your First Interaction with Claude Code
• Lab: Hello Claude Code

Section 3: Prompting & Steering

• Learn to direct Claude Code with precision and confidence
• Steering & Diff Review
• Prompt Engineering
• Outcomes vs. Implementations
• Explore / Plan / Execute / Review
• Context Setting
• Context Management

Section 4: Scaffold Your First Project

• Put your prompting skills to work and build something real
• Scaffolding
• Lab: Scaffold & Extend

Section 5: How the Web Works

• The foundations every web developer needs to understand
• The Web Dev Stack
• URLs, DNS & HTTP
• HTML & CSS Basics
• JavaScript Fundamentals
• Frontend, Backend & APIs
• Dev vs. Production

Section 6: Build, Edit & Debug

• Build features, fix bugs, and write tests with Claude
• Edits to Features
• Building Features
• Debugging
• Testing
• Lab: Build, Edit & Debug

Section 7: App Architecture

• Understand how modern web apps are structured
• Libraries, Packages & npm
• App Architectures
• Next.js Anatomy
• Prompt Comparison
• Plan Mode
• Recovery: When to Steer vs. Restart

Section 8: Business Landing Page

• Build a professional landing page from scratch
• Lab: Business Landing Page

Section 9: Advanced Claude Code & Collaboration

• Power-user workflows and working with teams
• Multi-File Workflows
• Skills & Slash Commands
• Project Planning with Claude Code
• Parallel Sessions with Claude Code
• Hooks & Subagents
• MCP
• CLAUDE.md with Teams

Section 10: Git Workflow

• Advanced Git and collaboration in practice
• Git & GitHub: Advanced
• Pull Requests & Code Reviews with Claude Code
• Lab: Git Workflow

Section 11: Data, Databases & Authentication

• Store data, manage users, and handle forms
• Why Your App Needs a Database
• Database Schemas, Tables & Rows
• Connecting to Supabase: Step by Step
• Environment Variables & .env Files
• Forms & User Input
• User Authentication

Section 12: Notes App

• Build a full-stack app with login and persistent data
• Lab: Notes App

Section 13: APIs, OAuth & Forms

• Connect to the outside world and handle user data
• OAuth
• Working with External APIs
• Getting & Managing API Keys
• The API Marketplace
• Caching

Section 14: Extend the Notes App

• Add OAuth, a weather API, and a shared cache
• Lab: Extend the Notes App

Section 15: Design & UX

• Make your app look and feel like a real product
• UX/UI Fundamentals & Design Inspiration
• Components & Design Systems
• Responsive Design with Tailwind CSS
• Accessibility: Building for Everyone
• Screenshots with Claude Code
• Essential UI States & Browser DevTools

Section 16: Design Makeover

• Apply design and UX improvements to the notes app
• Lab: Design Makeover

Section 17: Security

• Protect your app and your users
• Six Attacks Every Developer Should Know
• Input Validation
• Rate Limiting
• Data Privacy
• Security Terms Every Builder Must Know

Section 18: Security Hardening

• Audit and harden the notes app against common vulnerabilities
• Lab: Security Hardening

Section 19: Deployment

• Take your app from localhost to the live web
• How to Deploy: From Code to Live URL
• Domains & DNS
• SEO & Performance
• Pre-Launch Checklist

Section 20: Launch Day

• Deploy and ship the notes/weather app to the live web
• Lab: Launch Day
• Your Learning Path Forward

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.