Claude Code Tutorial: Beginner to Advanced in 20 Minutes

An overview and starting point for Claude Code. Want to learn more about coding with AI? Check out my course: https://www.traversymedia.com/coding-with-ai Get Cluade Code To Follow Along: https://clau.de/TraversyMedia Get the Neon free plan: https://get.neon.com/6uuwMG3 Follow Neon to not miss course giveaways: - X/Twitter: https://x.com/neondatabase - Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neondatabase Github Gist With Prompts: https://gist.github.com/bradtraversy/9937e0ecfc8a5b269ce6a885636670dc Crypto Dash Repo: https://github.com/bradtraversy/crypto-dash Timestamps: 0:00 - intro 2:23 - What Is Claude Code 3:56 - Installing Claude 6:43 - First Launch 7:26 - Models & Usage Limits 10:44 - Effort 11:14 - Using Claude In VS Code 12:16 - The First Prompt 16:10 - Shell Mode 17:30 - Modes 19:15 - Settings & Permissions 22:55 - VS Code Extension 24:05 - Refactoring Code 27:03 - Context, Tokens & Clearing 29:20 - Global Sessions 33:14 - Working on an Existing Project 35:48 - Claude.md File & /init 39:28 - Plan Mode 44:58 - Adding Favorites Feature 48:05 - Skills 53:27 - MCPs 57:51 - Sub-Agents

🚀 Join Ai Foundations - https://aifoundations.io/join-carter This is the only Claude tutorial you’ll ever need. With this guide you can go from beginner to pro using Claude. I cover the basics like signing up, settings, memory, prompting and we work our way up to the intermediate features like Claude projects, artifacts, inline visualizations, data analytics and more. Then we finally dive into Claude desktop, where I teach you how to use Claude Cowork with computer use, scheduled tasks, and connectors for Notion, Gmail and Google Calendar. I even show you how to build Claude skills from scratch. After you have a beginner's understanding of Claude we dive into Claude Code. I show you how to deploy a real website in Netlify and even control Claude through a remote environment on Anthropics servers. We cover github, environment variables, pretty much everything you need, explained in beginner terms. I even cover exporting your ChatGPT memories and bringing them over to Claude. If you've been hearing about Claude AI, Claude Cowork, or Claude Code and wondering how it all fits together: this is the video you’ve been searching for. I walk through everything step-by-step leaving no stone unturned. Utilize the chapters and resources below to get the most out of this video. If it’s your first time watching, I recommend watching all the way through at least once, then coming back to spend extra time on specific chapters! Resources Mentioned: Join Ai Foundations - https://aifoundations.io/join-carter DBS Framework Skill - https://aifoundations.io/resources/the-dbs-framework-skill Claude Code Mastery - https://aifoundations.io/products/claude-code-mastery Sign up for Claude - https://claude.ai Chapters: 0:00 - Claude Tutorial Intro 0:25 - How to Use This Guide 0:40 - Claude Pricing Comparison 1:22 - Sign Up for Claude 1:49 - Claude Onboarding 3:10 - Claude Chat Layout 3:50 - General Settings 4:53 - Notifications 6:00 - Claude Appearance 6:35 - Claude Voices 6:51 - Privacy and Billing 8:02 - Claude Memory 8:26 - Exporting Memories from ChatGPT 9:21 - Tool Settings 10:14 - Claude Artifact Settings 11:23 - Code Permissions 12:10 - Connector Settings 13:00 - Language Settings 13:15 - Claude Status and Support 13:50 - Gifting Claude 14:23 - Keyboard Shortcuts 14:40 - Claude Models 16:15 - Attachments and Connections 17:10 - Writing Styles in Claude 17:53 - Talking to Claude Voice 19:00 - Organizing Chats 19:40 - Incognito Chats 20:20 - GCAO Prompt Template 21:50 - Prompting Claude 24:50 - Ai Foundations Offers 25:38 - Claude Chat Search 26:34 - Claude Projects Guide 27:18 - Project Instructions 29:40 - Projects Guide Continued 30:56 - Claude Artifacts Library 32:37 - Creating Claude Artifacts 36:40 - Sharing Artifacts 37:15 - Mini App Artifacts 38:35 - Inline Visualizations 39:00 - Visualizing Data Analytics 41:15 - Claude Desktop 42:45 - Claude Cowork Setup 44:00 - Claude Quick Chat 45:00 - Cowork Settings Continued 47:00 - Organizing Files in Cowork 48:20 - Claude Computer Use 49:30 - Cowork Scheduled Tasks 51:22 - Cowork Projects 52:40 - Cowork Prospecting Project 55:00 - Claude in Chrome Extension 56:10 - Cowork Project Results 57:05 - Claude Dispatch Setup 57:50 - Cowork Connectors 58:20 - Claude Notion MCP Connector 59:30 - Using Connectors 1:00:18 - Claude Gmail Connector 1:02:40 - Claude Skills 1:04:18 - DBS Framework Skill 1:05:30 - Uploading Skills 1:06:00 - Creating a Basic Skill 1:07:36 - Testing the Recipe Skill 1:09:25 - Creating an Advanced Skill 1:10:20 - Google Calendar Connector 1:12:24 - Testing the Calendar Skill 1:13:10 - Claude Code Prerequisite 1:14:20 - Claude Code Mastery 1:15:23 - Two Ways to Use Claude Code 1:15:48 - Claude Code Environments 1:17:45 - Claude Code Models 1:18:10 - Claude Code Effort 1:18:34 - Claude Code Permissions 1:18:50 - Claude Code Enhancements 1:20:20 - Folder Setup 1:21:30 - Creating Claude MD 1:22:12 - Opening Files Quickly 1:22:31 - Building a Personal Website 1:25:15 - Planning with Claude Code 1:28:05 - Plan Mode in Claude Code 1:28:45 - Editing My Site 1:29:19 - The Complete Website 1:30:00 - Deploying with Netlify Connector 1:31:12 - Setting a Domain Name 1:31:45 - Adding Environment Variables 1:34:00 - Testing Email Connection 1:34:30 - Creating Remote Skills 1:36:18 - Github Repo Setup 1:37:00 - Initial Commit in Github 1:38:00 - Claude Code Cloud Environments 1:39:00 - Claude Code on my Phone 1:39:55 - Netlify + Github Deployment Setup 1:41:00 - Updating My Website 1:42:00 - Website Complete 1:42:20 - Claude Code Scheduled Tasks 1:44:24 - Scheduled Tasks with Skills 1:47:30 - Updating My Website from Anywhere 1:49:50 - Claude Code Terminal 1:50:30 - Claude Code Commands 1:51:10 - Claude Code Terminal Test 1:51:58 - Final Thoughts #claude #claudecowork #claudecode

Learn all about Claude Code. This is the ultimate guide to turning Anthropic’s Claude into a seamless part of your development workflow. Whether you're scaffolding a brand-new project or navigating a complex, multi-file codebase, this is how you code faster without sacrificing quality. 🔗 IMPORTANT LINKS 🔬 Practice with Hands-On Labs: https://kode.wiki/claude-code 🎓 Get the Full Course here: https://kode.wiki/claude-code-course ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp ⭐️ Contents ⭐️ 0:00:00 Introduction 0:00:30 Prerequisites and Initial Setup 0:09:25 Start your first session 0:23:58 Understanding Codebases with Claude 0:32:21 Installing Claude on Ubuntu Virtual Machines 0:49:34 Building a project from scratch 0:49:34 Getting project ready for public release 0:56:49 Creating Unit Tests for our Project 1:03:20 Autonomous Task Completion 1:17:11 Environment and Configuration Management 1:30:17 Managing Long Sessions Effectively 2:07:52 Writing Effective Development Prompts 2:23:39 Multi-file Project Navigation 2:32:10 Working with APIs and External Services 2:46:16 Initial Project Analysis 2:56:24 Design Pattern Implementation Review 3:05:50 SOLID Principles Evaluation 3:24:04 Error Handling & Resilience Audit 3:36:04 Exception Flow Analysis 3:52:12 Resilience & Fault Tolerance 3:53:09 Code Quality Metrics & Standards 4:02:17 Code Duplication Detection 4:12:14 Naming Conventions & Readability 4:19:23 Test Coverage & Quality Analysis 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 @omerhattapoglu1158 👾 @goddardtan 👾 @akihayashi6629 👾 @kikilogsin 👾 @anthonycampbell2148 👾 @tobymiller7790 👾 @rajibdassharma497 👾 @CloudVirtualizationEnthusiast 👾 @adilsoncarlosvianacarlos 👾 @martinmacchia1564 👾 @ulisesmoralez4160 👾 @_Oscar_ 👾 @jedi-or-sith2728 👾 @justinhual1290 -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news

The complete Claude AI tutorial for beginners: climb all 6 levels, from your first prompt to Claude working while you're away. Files, deep research, projects, connectors, Cowork, and building real websites with Claude Code. ✅ Omnisend (30% for 3 Months with Code MM30): https://meticsmedia.com/omnisend-MSK In this Claude AI tutorial for beginners you'll learn: ✔️ What Claude AI is and how to create a free Claude account ✔️ How to write AI prompts that get great results (context, task, format) ✔️ Claude models explained (Sonnet, Opus, Haiku) plus usage limits and effort settings ✔️ Uploading files and images for AI document analysis ✔️ Web search and Deep Research: cited AI research reports ✔️ Creating Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and interactive web pages with AI ✔️ Claude Projects, personal instructions, memory, and importing your ChatGPT memory ✔️ The Claude mobile app and desktop app ✔️ Connecting Claude to your apps with connectors and MCP (Google Calendar, Omnisend email marketing) ✔️ Installing Claude Skills ✔️ Cowork: letting an AI agent work on your computer autonomously ✔️ Scheduled tasks: AI automation that runs every day ✔️ Claude Design for website design and Claude Code for building real websites and apps — no coding required 🔗 Links Mentioned in Video Claude signup: https://claude.ai Omnisend MCP server URL: https://mcp.omnisend.com/v2/mcp Deploy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60kl9RfzDg Shopify guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQGabloRalM $10K website video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMvZuhcDdnw 📍 Exclusive Deals & Discounts: https://meticsmedia.com/deals ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 Intro: The 6 Levels of Claude 00:57 Level 1 — Talk To Claude 01:01 What Is Claude AI? 01:50 Create Your Free Claude Account 03:52 How to Write Good Prompts 07:18 Pick the Right Model 09:38 Level 2 — Give Claude Your World 09:42 Upload Files & Images 11:56 Web Search & Deep Research 16:39 Level 3 — Make Real Things 17:06 Create Documents, Spreadsheets & Web Pages 20:16 Level 4 — Make Claude Know You 20:20 Organize Your Work with Projects 22:20 Make Claude Remember You 25:29 Claude on Your Phone & Desktop 28:54 Level 5 — Connect Your Apps 29:05 Connect Claude to Your Apps 37:00 Install & Use Skills 39:47 Level 6 — Claude Works Without You 40:10 Let Claude Work While You're Away 43:46 Schedule Claude to Work Every Day 46:40 The Final Evolution: Claude Code 47:35 Design a Website with Claude Design 52:14 Build the Website with Claude Code 57:07 Build Your Own App with Claude Code 📄 Disclosure Some of the links are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through them, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps us keep our videos free for everyone.

🔥 Join Maker School & get customer #1 guaranteed: https://skool.com/makerschool/about 📁 Get all Claude course resources 100% free: https://skool.com/maker-zero/about ➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others. In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube. It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life. I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now. As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry. That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency. From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today. Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more. Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of. It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it! Summary ⤵️ The end-to-end, definitive course on Claude Code for beginners! I'll take you through a full four-hour masterclass where I start by teaching you how to set up and install Claude Code in a tutorial, how to configure your IDE or integrated development environment (we'll use Antigravity), how to utilize your CLAUDE.md file as your project brain, how to build your first project in Antigravity using Claude Code in under 15 minutes, advanced Claude Code functionality including hooks, slash commands, and more. I also teach you how to spin up multiple Claude Code instances and have them work on your behalf; how to parallelize work using sub-agents; how to use Git work trees to accomplish many hours of work in just a few minutes; how to conserve tokens and use context management to crush your coding and software projects; how to deploy things to the cloud using Modal and related services, and in general... how to be awesome at Claude Code! Hope you enjoy the tutorial. Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction to the Claude Code Tutorial 00:01:07 Learning the Basics of Claude Code 00:03:44 Setting Up Claude Code 00:08:05 Terminal vs. Graphical User Interface 00:12:23 Understanding IDEs 00:13:53 Exploring Visual Studio Code 00:19:11 Getting Started with Antigravity 00:24:01 Building Your First Web App with Claude Code 00:30:29 Utilizing the CLAUDE.md File (Project Brain) 00:34:40 Approaches to Website Design in CC +Antigravity 00:41:47 Importance of Verification in AI 00:54:42 Advanced Claude Code Functionality 00:55:13 Understanding the .claude Directory 02:01:24 Adjusting the Proposal Design 02:01:55 Testing Payment Functionality 02:05:20 Leveraging GitHub for Project Management 02:06:12 Setting Up the Project 02:07:50 The Power of Automation 02:13:53 Context Management Explained 02:19:56 Understanding MCP Tools 02:27:23 Strategies for Token Management 02:35:29 Creating Skills for Efficiency 02:41:15 The Structure of Skills 02:44:39 Building a New Skill 02:50:58 Introduction to Model Context Protocol 02:58:15 Evaluating Token Usage in MCPs 03:09:07 Exploring Claude Code Plugins 03:11:08 Introduction to Sub-Agents 03:12:15 Transforming Skills into Sub-Agents 03:14:14 Scaling Email Classification 03:18:54 Creating Useful Sub-Agents 03:26:27 Understanding Agent Teams 03:32:59 Enabling and Using Agent Teams 04:02:34 Utilizing Git Worktrees 04:03:08 Deploying APIs with Modal

Welcome to the Claude Code Playlist — your practical guide to building with Claude Code, even if you're not a developer. In this playlist, you'll learn how to use Claude Code effectively, avoid common mistakes, and build faster using real workflows, planning, agents, hooks, skills, plugins, checkpoints, and review mode. 📌 What you'll learn: • How to set up and use Claude Code • Best practices for non-coders & beginners • Plan mode (Shift + Tab) to avoid bad code early • Skills, Hooks, Agents & Plugins explained simply • Checkpoints & rewind (smart Ctrl+Z) • Review mode to catch mistakes before finishing • CLAUDE.md best practices & context management • Git workflow with Claude Code • Real-world prompts and workflows that actually work 💡 This playlist focuses on practical usage, not theory — helping you collaborate with Claude like a smart coding teammate. Whether you're a beginner, founder, non-coder, indie hacker, or developer, this playlist will help you get more out of Claude Code. 🔔 New videos added regularly — subscribe and follow along. #ClaudeCode #ClaudeAI #AIcoding #CodingAssistant #Anthropic #AIAgents #BuildWithAI #NoCode #VibeCoding