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Crack the Claude Code

Learn how to confidently use Claude Code for daily work including crafting effective prompts, utilizing custom commands, and implementing advanced debugging techniques to reliably ship AI-assisted production code.

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There are 28 lessons in this course:

Foundation and setup

Overview of Crack the Claude Code

Course overview 6

Where Claude Code runs

New Where Claude Code runs

Install Claude Code

Install Claude Code

Running Claude Code for the first time

New Running Claude Code for the first time

Understand CLAUDE.md files in Claude Code

New Understand CLAUDE.md files 2

Organize CLAUDE.md files in Claude Code

New Organize CLAUDE.md files

Understand configuration directories in Claude Code

Understand configuration directories

Settings configuration fallback hierarchy in Claude Code

Settings configuration fallback hierarchy

Basic operations and modes

Write multi-line prompts in Claude Code

Write multi-line prompts 2

Understand message flow in Claude Code

Understand message flow

Understand permission modes in Claude Code

Understand permission modes

Set a default editing mode for Claude Code

Set a default editing mode

Choose and switch models in Claude Code

New Choose and switch models

Prompt creation and workflow control

Craft a focused prompt in Claude Code

Craft a focused prompt

Set effort levels in Claude Code

Set effort levels 5

Understand effort levels in Claude Code

New Understand effort levels

Speed up commands with voice prompting in Claude Code

Speed up commands with voice prompting

Use plan mode in Claude Code

New Use plan mode

Code management

Resume or continue a coding session in Claude Code

Resume or continue a session

Rewind a coding session in Claude Code

Rewind a session

Run shell commands directly from Claude Code

New Run shell commands directly

Backgrounding tasks and sessions in Claude Code

New Backgrounding tasks and sessions

Prevent sensitive file lookups in Claude Code

Refreshed Prevent sensitive file lookups

Context management

Understand tokens and context windows in Claude Code

Refreshed Understand tokens and context windows

Manage token and context usage in Claude Code

Refreshed Manage token and context usage

Clear the context window in Claude Code

Refreshed Clear the context window

Choose the right subscription plan for Claude Code

Refreshed Choose a subscription plan

Wrap-up

Next steps and continued learning with Claude Code

Refreshed Next steps