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Claude Code: Developing Applications

Course 1354 Advantage Plan Course

  • Duration: 2 days
  • Language: English
  • Level: Intermediate

In this two-day course you’ll use Claude Code to create a desktop application, refactor it into multi-tier application, and then migrate the application to a microservices architecture. You’ll extend Claude Code with skills, tools, hooks, and plugins. The focus of this course is leveraging Claude Code to create reliable, secure, maintainable, extendable, and understandable applications.

Claude Code App Development Training Delivery Methods

  • Online

  • In-person

  • Upskill your whole team by bringing Private Team Training to your facility.

Claude Code App Development Training Information

  • Course Benefits

    • Use Claude Code both to create new applications and extend, enhance, and modify existing applications
    • Manage Claude Code sessions and context to get optimal performance
    • Extend your Claude Code environment with skills to reduce your workload
    • Add new functionality to Claude Code MCP Servers, including GitHub
    • Have Claude Code build tests that ensure your application works correctly
    • Leverage hooks, goals, and loops to enhance Claude Code’s ability to generate code
    • Work with Claude Code in a variety of platforms and languages from Node.js to .NET

    Prerequisites

    Some coding experience is helpful for some topics in this course about extending Claude Code.

Claude Code App Development Training Outline

Module 1: Creating Your First Claude Code Application

  • Working with the Claude Code App, CLI, and Extension
  • Understanding the Claude Code development cycle
  • Integrating software maintenance
  • Architecting your application in Plan mode
  • Enhancing Plan mode
  • Creating a single-tier application

Lab 1.1: Starting your IDE and Configuring Claude Code

Lab 1.2: Creating a desktop application that accesses a database

 

Module 2: Refactoring a Distributed Application

  • Configuring your Claude Code environment
  • Refactoring your application
  • Building Claude Code context
  • Adding MCP Servers
  • Performing exploratory testing with Claude Code and Playwright
  • Automating testing
  • Creating a multi-application

Lab 2.1: Create a Web application with a Web Service

Lab 2.2: Refactoring an existing application to use the Web Service

Lab 2.3: Adding, executing and reviewing tests with Playwright

 

Module 3: Extending Claude Code

  • Adding new skills to Claude Code
  • Creating Custom Skills
  • Adding Claude Code Hooks
  • Leveraging Claude Code Loops
  • Integrating authentication

Lab 3.1: Adding a skill

Lab 3.2: Creating a skill

Lab 3.3: Leveraging Loops

 

Module 4: Supporting Your Application

  • Exploit specs, plans, and extended thinking to handle sophisticated requests
  • Orchestrate complex workflows with agents and use subagents
  • Managing your session
  • Enhancing the UI
  • Adding application monitoring and including notifications
  • Adding Cloud Resources in a microservice applications

Lab 4.1: Generating a Queue with Claude Code

Lab 4.2: Refactoring the application to write to a queue

 

Module 5: Final Steps

  • Integrating images
  • Generate documentation and architecture plans

Lab 5.1: Building a better UI

Lab 5.2: Generating documentation

Commercial Pricing

£1,650

  • 2-day instructor-led training course

  • Hands-on learning labs included

  • After-course coaching available

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  • Sep 8 - 9 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM BST
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
  • Sep 21 - 22 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM BST
    London or Virtual
  • Oct 5 - 6 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM BST
    Ottawa or Virtual
  • Oct 19 - 20 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM BST
    London or Virtual
  • Nov 2 - 3 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
  • Nov 16 - 17 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM GMT
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  • Nov 30 - Dec 1 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT
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  • Dec 14 - 15 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM GMT
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  • Jan 4 - 5 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
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  • Feb 22 - 23 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT
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  • Mar 22 - 23 1:00 PM - 8:30 PM GMT
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  • Apr 19 - 20 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM BST
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Claude Code App Development Training FAQs

Claude acts as an AI development partner rather than just a code editor or autocomplete tool. Instead of manually writing every component, developers can describe requirements in natural language and have Claude generate code, explain design decisions, create tests, refactor applications, and generate documentation. Claude can also maintain context across large projects, helping developers work at a higher level of abstraction while still retaining control over the final implementation.

Claude Code can significantly accelerate the software development lifecycle by reducing time spent on repetitive tasks such as code generation, debugging, testing, documentation, and refactoring. It enables developers to focus more on architecture, business requirements, and problem-solving while allowing Claude to handle much of the implementation work. Organisations also benefit from improved consistency, faster onboarding of new developers, and increased productivity across development teams.

No. Claude Code enhances developer capabilities rather than replacing them. Successful use of Claude still requires an understanding of software engineering principles, architecture, security, testing, and code review. Developers must be able to evaluate Claude's output, identify potential issues, provide effective guidance, and ensure solutions meet business and technical requirements. The most successful developers will combine strong engineering skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with AI-assisted development tools.

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