Claude Code: Software Engineering with Generative AI Agents
Dr. Jules White's university course on running Claude Code like a small engineering team: project context, reusable commands, and parallel work with worktrees and subagents. The pick if you want a shareable certificate from a university.
Go to the course on Coursera- Provider
- Vanderbilt University (Coursera)
- Price
- Paid
- Certificate
- Paid certificateShareable certificate with the paid Certificate experience or Coursera Plus.
- Level
- Beginner
- Time
- 5 hours
- Format
- Self-paced course (6 modules, 2 assignments)
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
Included with Coursera Plus; course materials and certificate require the Certificate experience. Also needs paid access to Claude Code. Check current pricing.
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What you will learn.
- 01Claude Code
- 02CLAUDE.md
- 03Custom commands
- 04Git worktrees
- 05Subagents
- 06Code quality
- 07Multimodal prompting
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Before you enroll.
From the course page, checked 2026-11-05.
- Who it is for
- Software engineers, tech leads, and development teams adopting AI-assisted coding.
- You need
- Basic software development experience
- Familiarity with Git
- Paid access to Claude Code
- What you build
- A first application built with Claude Code
- Several versions of one feature using the Best of N pattern
- A documentation generator
- Your own AI-first development process
- Good to know
- Coursera labels it Beginner, but it expects development and Git experience
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