Resources

Videos (assigned in the homework, collected here)

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Nate Herk: youtube.com/@nateherk

• Master 95% of Claude Code in 36 Mins (as a beginner): assigned after Session 1. Interface, communicating clearly, testing and deployment. (Find it on the channel, his uploads are pinned and searchable.)
• How to Build Effective Claude Code Agents in 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzLV8sfFdMM, optional, for the weekend after the planning half. Directing agents with planning and verification instead of "prompting and praying"; includes why every model has a "dumb zone" (context rot by another name) and chaining sessions (handoffs by another name).
• Also good: From Zero to Your First Agentic AI Workflow in 26 Minutes (Claude Code), on the channel.

Chase AI: youtube.com/@Chase-H-AI

• Learn 90% of Claude Code in 31 Minutes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwkdDcO4vWQ, assigned after Session 2.
• 567 Hours of Claude Code Lessons in 20 Minutes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVEoyx349Hk, assigned after Session 3. Watch counting how many lessons are secretly context management.
• Claude Code Has Evolved, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d86VCtQ_dN8, optional, the Session 6 build stretch.

A note on videos in this field: they date in months. The channels are the durable link; specific videos will be superseded, the lifecycle they teach won't be.

Official documentation

• Claude Code docs, https://code.claude.com/docs
• Best practices, https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices, after the course this reads like a summary of it; that's convergence, not coincidence. The source for several rules we teach (the CLAUDE.md deletion test, /clear habits, the two-corrections rule, verification loops, explore→plan→code→commit).
• Setup / installation, https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup

The toolbelt

• gstack, https://github.com/garrytan/gstack, the course's toolbelt, installed in Session 1 by pasting this URL into Claude Code. The full command map is the gstack directory cheatsheet.
• For after the course: other packagings of the same lifecycle exist, Superpowers (https://github.com/obra/superpowers) and GSD (https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done). Trying one on a new project and forming your own opinion of the packaging is a fine graduation exercise; the lifecycle underneath never changes shape.

Where the best-practice material comes from

The Vibe Coder's Code and the course's working rules distil: Anthropic's official best-practices guide (above); current practitioner consensus on disciplined vibe coding, spec/plan/review/verify oversight, fresh sessions per task, treating AI output like a junior's pull request (see e.g. SitePoint's 2026 guide and How to Vibe Code: A Developer's Playbook); and the timeless engineering canon, version control, small batches, test-first thinking, root-cause debugging, YAGNI, code review, that predates and will outlive every tool in this list.