alchaincyf/claude-code-orange-book

What it solves

Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-native AI programming tool, but most people only scratch the surface. This book fills the gap between "knowing the basics" and "shipping real products" — it teaches you the workflows, context engineering, and advanced features (Skills, Hooks, MCP, multi-agent collaboration) needed to be genuinely productive with agentic coding. It also shows that you don't need to hand-write code to build and launch software.

How it works

The guide is structured as a progressive curriculum: it starts with installation and your first project, moves into core skills like Plan/Auto mode, CLAUDE.md, and prompting, then goes into advanced practice such as hooks, multi-agent setups, and building actual products. Real-world projects (a Chrome extension, content automation, an iOS app) walk you through complete examples, and 15 hands-on exercises let you practice incrementally. Appendices cover source code analysis, command references, FAQ, glossary, and templates.

Who it's for

• Engineers who want to multiply their productivity by offloading boilerplate, debugging, testing, and CI/CD to Claude Code
• Product managers who want to build MVPs themselves without waiting for dev resources
• Entrepreneurs building one-person companies who need the development capacity of a small team

No prior AI programming experience is required — the book starts from zero but doesn't linger on basics.

Highlights

• Written by HuaShu (花叔), an author and indie developer who has never hand-written a line of code, yet built an App Store #1 paid app and published 7 technical books
• Covers 14 chapters across 6 parts, plus 15 hands-on exercises and 7 appendices
• Includes real-world case studies like a Chrome extension, a content automation system, and an iOS app that reached #1 on the App Store
• Available as a downloadable PDF in both Chinese and English for the best reading experience
• Released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (free to share and adapt for non-commercial purposes)