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Beginner to intermediate curriculum · Claude & Codex AI-Assisted DevelopmentClaude & Codex AI-Assisted Development
A disciplined AI workflow for learning, planning, small changes, debugging, refactoring, review, tests and documentation. If you cannot explain it, do not commit it.
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learning objective
Use Claude and Codex to support learning and small verified changes while retaining technical ownership.
recommended class plan
10–14 focused classes + ongoing integration · 75–90 minutes per class
1 focused class + responsible AI practice throughout
technologies
- Claude
- OpenAI Codex
- AI-assisted development workflow
tools
- Claude
- Codex
- VS Code workflows
- Git
- Compiler
- Test runner
curriculum modules
Basic foundations → practical skills → guided application
AI as a Learning Partner
Explanations, examples, comparisons, exercises and knowledge checks.
Context & Prompting
Provide requirements, constraints, project context and ask for an approach before code.
Small Verified Changes
Generate a limited change, read every file, review the diff, compile and test.
Debugging, Refactoring & Review
Investigate errors, improve code, draft tests and review security and correctness.
Responsible Vibe Coding
Ask → generate → understand → review → test → improve → commit.
AI + Git Workflow
Requirement → branch → approach → small change → diff → compile → test → review → commit → PR.
beginner topics
Start here and build comfort.
- Ask for beginner explanations
- Generate exercises without answers
- Explain unfamiliar code
- Provide focused context
intermediate topics
Progress after the basics are clear.
- Review diffs
- Debug step by step
- Generate and verify tests
- Refactor small scopes
- AI-assisted code review
- Git-integrated workflow
practical learning
Practise, submit, build and explain.
Practical exercises
- —Improve a vague prompt
- —Review a generated method
- —Find an AI-introduced bug
- —Explain a diff before committing
Assignments
- —Complete one AI-assisted feature with evidence
- —Create a personal verification checklist
Mini projects
- —AI-Assisted CRUD Feature Under Review
industry habits throughout the track
Industry terminology
Debugging exercises
- Challenge an incorrect AI diagnosis
- Use logs and tests to verify a suggestion
- Reject an unnecessary rewrite
AI learning exercises
- Learning prompts
- Coding-practice prompts without solutions
- Line-by-line explanations
- Interview simulation
- Test and documentation review
topics intentionally excluded
Advanced topics come later.
Quality fundamentals are more valuable than an overloaded syllabus. These topics are outside this track:
- Blind application generation
- Committing unexplained code
- Sharing credentials
- Autonomous production changes
- Replacing fundamentals with prompts
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