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The full syllabus of the Claude Code Bootcamp: 86 lessons (68 daily across 6 weeks plus 18 bonus deep-dives), and 64 real-world projects across 8 categories. Every title is listed below.

86
lessons total
68
daily lessons
18
bonus deep-dives
6
weeks
64
projects
8
project categories

In total the Claude Code Bootcamp contains 86 lessons — 68 daily lessons across 6 themed weeks plus 18 optional bonus deep-dives, every one with professional audio narration and a curated video — and 64 real-world project walkthroughs grouped into 8 categories: Ship a Website; Automations That Run on a Schedule; Skills, Hooks & Making Claude Yours; Email, Calendar & Personal Ops; Data & Business Intelligence; Power Tools & the Capstone; Continuous Assurance: Security & Facilities Watchdogs; Access & Impact: High-Stakes Life Tasks, Done With a Guardrail.

The 6-week curriculum — all 86 lessons

Every daily lesson and bonus deep-dive, in order, week by week.

Week 1 — Getting Comfortable — Your First Steps

Start from zero: what Claude Code is, installing and running it, the mental model of a brilliant new teammate, clear asks, trust-but-verify, and your first real win.

  1. What AI Actually Is
  2. What's an LLM? (The Engine Inside)
  3. Meet Claude — in the Chat
  4. Working Alongside Claude — Cowork
  5. Claude Can Build Things — Artifacts
  6. The Same Brain, in a Console — Meet Claude Code
  7. Why Move to the Console at All?
  8. What Claude Actually Costs — Meet Tokens, Gently
  9. Smart & Safe — Trust, but Verify
  10. Getting Comfortable — Talking to Claude Without FearBonus
  11. A Day in the Life — Real Ways People Use ClaudeBonus
  12. Claude vs a Search Engine — When to Use WhichBonus

Week 2 — Prompt Engineering Foundations & The Co-Pilot

Master the exact mechanics of communicating with Claude — how tone, constraints, interrogation, and conversational loops drastically alter code quality.

  1. Your First Win — Vague vs. Specific Prompts
  2. The Interrogation Technique (Reverse Prompting)
  3. Conversational Loops vs One-Shot Prompts
  4. Persona Engineering (Multi-Roleplay Comparison)
  5. Context Window Management & Memory
  6. Terminal Automation & Script Generation
  7. Artifacts & Visual Iteration Loops
  8. Tokens & the Context Window — Spending Attention Wisely
  9. Which Claude? Opus, Sonnet & Haiku
  10. Giving Claude a Memory — CLAUDE.md Basics
  11. Refine in Loops — Don't Start Over
  12. Context Windows & Prompt Economy: Spending Attention Where It MattersBonus
  13. A Prompt-Patterns Cheat-SheetBonus
  14. Paste Your Real Prompt — Get It RewrittenBonus

Week 3 — Secure Infrastructure, Version Control & Project Governance

Leverage AI to manage complex Git workflows and sysadmin automation, and install the governance files (CLAUDE.md, settings, skills, hooks) that keep an agent on-rails.

  1. The Brain: CLAUDE.md & .claudeignore (+ Secure Branching A/B)
  2. Hard Boundaries & Permissions: .claude/settings.json (+ /ask read-only + Git incident recovery)
  3. Progressive Disclosure & Knowledge Bases (+ defensive .gitignore)
  4. State Management: todo.md / prd.md (+ /plan + log parsing)
  5. Procedural Workflows: Skills / SKILL.md (+ network/DNS automation)
  6. Automation Hooks (+ vulnerable containers + autonomous vs stepped)
  7. Environment Audit & Peer Review
  8. Author Your First Skill — SKILL.md from Scratch
  9. Slash Commands — Your Own Shortcuts
  10. Plan Mode — Think Before You Touch Files
  11. Subagents — Delegating to Focused Helpers
  12. Memory That Scales — CLAUDE.md Deep-Dive
  13. Governing the Agent: CLAUDE.md, Permission Settings & HooksBonus
  14. Skill Design PatternsBonus
  15. When Claude Goes Wrong — Debugging Your SetupBonus

Week 4 — Cloud Console & Security Tooling APIs

Transition from the consumer app to programmatic API orchestration — data sanitization, token economics, streaming, and function calling against the Anthropic API.

  1. Anthropic Console & The Blue Team Persona
  2. API Bootstrapping & Secure Credential Handling
  3. Token Management with Large Inputs (PCAP/Logs)
  4. Streaming Outputs for Real-Time Threat Feeds
  5. Defining Security Tools (Function Calling)
  6. Integrating External Security Tooling
  7. The Automated Crisis Manager
  8. Token Economics & Cost Control
  9. Prompt Caching — Pay Once, Reuse Often
  10. Choosing Models Under Real Load
  11. Output Styles & Structured Responses
  12. Batching, Rate Limits & Backoff
  13. Token Economics, Streaming & Function CallingBonus
  14. Measuring & Cutting SpendBonus
  15. Streaming UX PatternsBonus

Week 5 — The Capstone Application & Multi-Agent Operations

Build a comprehensive Automated Threat Intelligence Pipeline using CI/CD and multi-agent (Red Team vs Blue Team) AI workflows.

  1. Architecting the Capstone Application
  2. GitHub Actions & Security Linting
  3. CI/CD Secret Management
  4. Building the AI Code Review Bot
  5. Multi-Agent Design (Red Team vs Blue Team)
  6. Programming the Red Team Agent
  7. Programming the Blue Team Agent
  8. MCP Deep-Dive — Design a Real Server
  9. Authoring Multi-Step Workflows
  10. Headless & CI Patterns
  11. Hooks in Production
  12. Skills at Scale — Libraries & Sharing
  13. Multi-Agent Failure Modes & Adversarial VerificationBonus
  14. MCP Security & TrustBonus
  15. Testing & Evaluating AgentsBonus

Week 6 — Mastery — Autonomous Multi-Agent Operations

Cross from operator to architect: orchestrate adversarial Red/Blue teams, gate Claude in CI/CD, author your own MCP tools, and ship a budgeted, self-verifying threat-intel pipeline.

  1. Agent Orchestration & The Infinite Loop
  2. Final Deployment & Workflow Mastery
  3. Multi-Agent Red/Blue Orchestration
  4. Headless & CI — Claude in the Pipeline
  5. Authoring an MCP Server — Give Claude Your Own Tools
  6. The Agent SDK — Programmatic, Long-Running Agents
  7. Master Capstone — Ship the Autonomous Threat-Intel Pipeline
  8. Working in Loops — Let Claude Iterate to the Goal
  9. Observability — Seeing What Your Agents Do
  10. Production Hardening & Guardrails
  11. Cost Control at Scale
  12. Capstone Extension — Ship, Monitor, Iterate
  13. Production Hardening, Observability & Cost ControlBonus
  14. Incident Response with AgentsBonus
  15. Teach It Back — Write Your Own RunbookBonus

The 64 real-world projects — by category

Do-this-exactly walkthroughs you can build and even turn into paid work. Every project title:

Ship a Website · 6 projects

Automations That Run on a Schedule · 6 projects

Skills, Hooks & Making Claude Yours · 5 projects

Email, Calendar & Personal Ops · 5 projects

Data & Business Intelligence · 6 projects

Power Tools & the Capstone · 8 projects

Continuous Assurance: Security & Facilities Watchdogs · 7 projects

Access & Impact: High-Stakes Life Tasks, Done With a Guardrail · 21 projects

That's 86 lessons and 64 projects.

Start with three free samples, then unlock all of it for $19/month or $69 for a full year.