This course contains the use of artificial intelligence

Claude Code is Anthropic's AI coding agent that works directly inside VS Code. Instead of copying and pasting between a chat window and your editor, Claude Code reads your files, writes code, runs commands, and iterates — all from a single interface. This course walks you through exactly how to use it, from initial setup to deploying real applications and automating your Microsoft 365 workflows.

What makes this course different: you will follow six complete, working modules — each building a real output. You will not just watch someone prompt an AI. You will understand what Claude Code is doing, why it does it, and how to guide it when it goes off track.

• Module 2 — Setup: Install and configure Claude Code from scratch: Anthropic account, Pro plan, Git, Node.js, Python, VS Code, and the Claude Code extension. Build your first project — a working calculator — in minutes.

• Module 3 — Landing Page Project: Build a complete SaaS landing page for a fictional product called Clarity. Learn how to write an effective CLAUDE md, manage Git from within Claude Code, add scroll animations, a modal, a pricing toggle, and publish the result live on GitHub Pages.

• Module 4 — Desktop App Project: Create a Python inventory control system with a graphical interface (PyWebView), a SQLite database, stock transaction history, and CSV export. Package it into a standalone .exe file using PyInstaller — no Python installation needed to run it.

• Module 5 — Web App Project: Build a medical appointment scheduling platform with Flask, htmx, and a cloud PostgreSQL database (Neon). Handle user roles (doctor/patient/clinic), availability rules, appointment confirmation, and deploy the entire system to Vercel with automatic deploys on every GitHub push.

• Module 6 — Claude with Excel, PowerPoint & Word: Use Claude's official add-ins for Microsoft 365. Clean messy data, write complex formulas, build financial models and charts in Excel. Create presentations from scratch and improve existing ones in PowerPoint — including a multi-agent demo where Claude in PowerPoint pulls live data from an open Excel file. In Word, generate a structured study guide, summarize a contract into an executive brief, and translate a financial memo while preserving technical terminology.

• Module 7 — Claude with Power BI: Connect Claude Desktop to Power BI using the MCP (Model Context Protocol) architecture. Import a sales dataset, let Claude create 25 DAX measures and fix table relationships automatically. Then switch to Claude Code in VS Code, install a Power BI skill, and generate a full single-page dashboard by editing PBIP JSON files directly — no manual drag-and-drop required.