Claude Code

Discover how Claude Code, Anthropic’s new agentic coding assistant, is redefining developer productivity directly from the terminal. In this session, we’ll explore how Claude Code leverages advanced natural language understanding to help you refactor, document, and debug code using conversational prompts. See live demonstrations of how Claude Code can streamline complex workflows—handling multi-step tasks, automating documentation, accelerating debugging, and even running tests or linting—all in a single pass.

We’ll dive into the tool’s unique capabilities, including its reasoning and language comprehension, multimodal integration, and built-in Git support for seamless version control. You’ll walk away with a clear understanding of how to incorporate Claude Code into your daily development process, improving code quality, maintainability, and collaboration, while saving valuable time. Whether you’re new to AI-assisted coding or looking to expand your toolkit, this session will equip you with practical techniques to harness Claude Code’s full potential and transform your coding workflow.

About Kenneth Kousen

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.

His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.

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