Claude Code Full Course – Autonomous Goals, MCP, and VS Code Setup

Learn Claude Code with this comprehensive crash course taught by a former senior software engineer. You will learn everything from setting up your local environment in VS Code to executing autonomous tasks with goals and seamlessly deploying your applications. By mastering file structures, custom skills, and the Model Context Protocol, you will have the exact toolkit needed to automate your development and ship modern software. ✏️ Course developed by @EricWTech 🔗 Join Eric's Skool community: https://www.skool.com/erictech/about ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp ⭐️ Contents ⭐️ - 0:00:00 Introduction & Course Overview - 0:02:33 Installing Claude Code on Your Local Machine - 0:03:24 Choosing an IDE & Installing VS Code - 0:06:51 Customizing VS Code Themes - 0:07:39 Starting and Managing a Claude Code Session - 0:11:51 Understanding Permission Modes (Plan, Accept Edits, Auto, Bypass) - 0:15:03 Using Plan Mode & Autonomous Goals (/goal) - 0:24:24 Installing and Triggering Claude Skills - 0:34:48 Exploring File Structures and Directories - 0:44:36 Managing Your Context Window and Token Usage - 0:50:00 Essential Built-In Slash Commands - 0:53:18 Managing Version Control with GitHub - 1:02:44 Connecting Tools & Deploying Apps via MCP and CLI - 1:11:57 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 @omerhattapoglu1158 👾 @goddardtan 👾 @akihayashi6629 👾 @kikilogsin 👾 @anthonycampbell2148 👾 @tobymiller7790 👾 @rajibdassharma497 👾 @CloudVirtualizationEnthusiast 👾 @adilsoncarlosvianacarlos 👾 @martinmacchia1564 👾 @ulisesmoralez4160 👾 @_Oscar_ 👾 @jedi-or-sith2728 👾 @justinhual1290 -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news