Claude Code Beginner to Pro: Agentic Coding & Development (Udemy.com)
Use Claude Code AI to build Next.js web apps. Includes MCP, custom rules, commands, agents, workflow automations + more!
Created by: Tom Phillips
Last updated August 2026
What you will learn
- How to use Claude Code for agentic coding, including building custom workflows, automations, and slash commands.
- How to build a full-stack Next.js app (LiftingDiary) generated almost entirely by Claude Code.
- How to integrate modern tooling: Clerk for authentication, Postgres on Neon, Drizzle ORM, and shadcn/ui for a production-ready stack.
- How to seed databases with MCP, enforce coding standards with custom documentation, and guide Claude Code's output to match your style.
- Best practices for treating Claude Code as a pair-programmer while keeping your codebase clean, maintainable, and consistent.
- Advanced techniques to extend Claude Code with your own conventions and scale agentic coding into larger projects.
Quality Score
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Overall Score : 92 / 100
Course Description
To get the most out of this course, a Claude subscription is recommended. We use premium models throughout the lessons to demonstrate the tool's full capabilities and superior output.
Step into the future of software development with Claude Code. In this hands-on, project-based course, you'll learn how to harness agentic coding to build full-stack applications faster, smarter, and more consistently than ever before.
We'll build a complete workout logging app called LiftingDiary, powered by Next.js, while letting Claude Code generate the heavy lifting for us. Along the way, you'll discover how to design and generate your own coding standards, workflows, and automations so that Claude Code writes production-ready code that feels like your code.
What You'll Learn:
Agentic Coding Fundamentals
Understand how Claude Code works, how to steer its output, and build your own "agentic workflows."Building LiftingDiary from Scratch
Use Claude Code to generate an entire Next.js app, from setup to deployment.Database & Auth Integration
Seed a Postgres database (hosted on Neon) with sample data in seconds using MCP (Model Context Protocol).
Implement secure authentication with Clerk.
Manage schema and queries using Drizzle ORM.
UI & Developer Experience
Build a modern interface with shadcn/ui.
Customize components and maintain design consistency.
Claude Code as Your Teammate
Write custom documentation files to guide coding standards.
Enforce conventions with rules to influence every line of output.
Create custom slash commands for common tasks.
Automate repetitive workflows.
Best Practices with Claude Code
Discover how to avoid pitfalls, keep your codebase maintainable, and treat Claude as an intelligent pair-programmer instead of a copy-paste machine.Advanced Agentic Coding Techniques
Learn how to prompt, build workflows, and extend Claude Code with your own conventions.
Whether you're a beginner curious about AI coding tools or an experienced developer ready to go pro with Claude Code, this course will give you the skills, confidence, and systemized approach to thrive in the new era of software development.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
2,700 Reviews
Tom Phillips
Tom has been a web developer for over a decade. He created WebDevEducation to provide courses that provide you with the skills you need to increase your value and thrive as a web developer. Tom's courses are fast-paced, information-dense, project-based courses that waste no time with useless fluff. Why waste 30+ hours on a course that you probably won't finish, when you can learn exactly the same thing in a quarter of the time, have a fully functioning HOSTED project at the end of it AND with the github code to prove you're capable in that technology? Learn popular web development libraries and frameworks with Tom to get ahead of the competition!
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Reviews
By Dávid Szabó on 8/25/2026
For me (developer) had great topics, however, I think it took too much time creating the web app instead of focusing on what the title suggests - Claude. I think it's more aimed for students, but then it should have a different title. If it were only 3 hours focused really on Claude, I would have liked it.
By Darren Jennings on 6/9/2026
I've taken a lot of Claude Code courses, but never found a course that goes from ground zero. Most courses assume you have used Claude. The last course was full-on brain melting info with a fast paced style that left you with a headache. This course has really indepth info from the beginning, not assuming you've already built with CC. The pace is comfortable and easy going, but very deep, so the learning is very easy to absorb. Best course on CC yet
By Ariff Glick on 6/9/2026
It's good, will need to have your laptop ready at hand to be able to follow along, or go back and watch the sections over. Some of the sections could be a little shorter but it gets the job done.
By Ankit Agrawal on 5/26/2026
coming from a product management pedigree, this is an absolute awesome beginners course which has now given me confidence to work on my projects and produce prototypes that i can use for stakeholders demos to collect feedback and then handover the requirements to Sr developers to produce production worthy code, also this course has given me huge confidence to actually understand the logic used by dev team to understand if we are indeed building the right product for the markets or not. Thanks! Ankit Agrwawal
By Hao WEN on 3/17/2026
This is the best Udemy course I’ve encountered for learning Claude Code from scratch. Despite not having prior knowledge of Next.js or TypeScript, I now have a solid understanding of how to approach vibe coding using Claude Code. Thank you! Tom , do some course in codex please, or hyper mix codex & claude !! Thx,bro!
By Edward Oatley on 3/17/2026
Really enjoyed the course, there were a couple of bits early on where decisions made probably made sense only if you know node js terminology e.g. use of server actions but that is pretty much the only thing I can fault the course on. It was a great experience to learn more about Claude code and how to get the best out of it
By Uri Lerner on 3/6/2026
Great course, I started knowing nothing about Claude Code, by now I love it and feel super happy to use it. One comment: I had multiple time zone issues. I live in the West Coast of the US, 8 hours from UTC and I had multiple off-by-one error with the dates (early morning UTC / afternoon or evening PT) and inconsistencies between my local host and Vercel. Claude kept making hacky changes until I told it to refactor all the time zone logic into a single file with helper functions which finally solved these issues. You could consider adding a lecture that shows some of these issues and what is the right way to address them.
By Teddy Allison on 3/5/2026
I am learning a lot from this session. As I follow along, things don't work the same for me as they do for the presenter. This caused confusion during the initial setup of clerk, neon, etc. as the products have changed since the presentation was created. (this was non-claude items). When using Claude to create/modify code, what I get is not always the same, but that is expected because Claude does not do something the same way every time. It is doing what is asked and following the rules provided in the .md files.
By Anonymized User on 2/8/2026
I think this lecture is the best, and let me know from 0 to 1 about claude for coding in new way. I just even don't need to know what's typs script. Thx & Credit ! I just wanne know do you have some course about codex in claude skill or claude cowork? cause claude is a litte bit expensive for out of work man, you know it's a bad recession in the world. In the end, Merci BCP!
By Christopher A Daly on 2/8/2026
A bit fast for a follow along course, but the information so far is EXCELLENT! And when prompting Claude, we will get different results from the instructor, which makes it difficult to follow. For example, in creating the Db through Claude prompt , we will get very different table objects. Even with that being the case, the course it very good. This course covers a lot of additional tools, like drizzle and neon, making it a GREAT overall introduction to mid-level course. Great job so far.


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