Claude Code: A Practitioner's Approach

This book wasn't written for developers.

It was written for the person who has a product idea at 10pm and no engineer available. For the PM who has been told for years that building is "not your job." For the founder tired of waiting on sprint cycles to validate a hypothesis. For the operator who knows what needs to be automated but can't ask for it in code.

We've taught more than 10,000 students between UCLA, the University of Minnesota, Coursera, DataCamp, and Maven. The single most common thing we hear, from PMs at Google, founders at YC-backed startups, executives at Fortune 100 companies, is this:

"I just want to build the thing. How do I get out of my own way?"

Claude Code is the answer.

Not because it makes coding easier. Because it makes coding optional.