Claude Code: Up and Running
Sep 1, 2026·
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1 min read
Ken Kousen
Abstract
Harness the power of agentic coding. Claude Code is a command-line agent that reads your codebase, runs your tools, and makes changes you can review, and this book shows how to put it to work on real projects: from the first session through custom commands, hooks, subagents, MCP servers, and the habits that keep an AI collaborator productive and safe. Now in Early Release on the O’Reilly Learning Platform, with 10 of 11 chapters available and the final chapter on the way.
Type
Publication
O’Reilly Media (Early Release)
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Authors
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, the author of seven technical books, and a Professor
of the Practice in Computer Science at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He runs
Kousen IT, Inc., offering technical training, mentoring, and software development
in Java, Kotlin, Spring, Gradle, Android, and AI/LLM topics.