Building with the Claude API ↗

Anthropic Academy intermediate self-paced free certificate ~8 hours
Prerequisites: Python programming experience
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The most comprehensive free course on building with Claude’s API — 21 lessons covering everything from basic API calls to tool use, structured outputs, and agent patterns. This is Anthropic’s flagship developer course and the definitive companion to the Claude API documentation in this knowledge base. If you’re building production applications with Claude, this course provides the hands-on practice that documentation alone cannot. Take this alongside the Claude API Essentials learning path.

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