Claude Code for Non-Coders (6 Hour Course)

Step-by-step course introducing Claude Code and building an AI-native workflow. The instructor explains product differences, mindset shifts, six essential AI skills, and practical setup for Claude Code, projects, APIs, and security. Students learn to create skills, sub-agents, automations, routines, and a second brain (wiki), plus cost and token management. The course emphasizes iterative testing, taste/judgment, context engineering, and safe deployment practices.

– Product overview: Claude Chat, Co-work and Claude Code compared; local file access and model trade-offs (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, Fable).
– Core skills & mindset: become the AI person; cultivate taste and judgment; context engineering; fast iteration; build autonomous assistants; diversify income (job-stacking).
– Practical setup: install Claude Code, create projects and cloud.md, add .env keys (Tavi, Google), manage permissions and MCP/CLI choices.
– Advanced builds: write reusable skills, sub-agents and agent teams, deploy routines (Modal/Versel), manage tokens and privacy, and use a wiki/knowledge-graph for memory.

Quotes:

One person can do the work that it used to take teams.

You can outsource your thinking, but you can never outsource your understanding.

AI agents are slot machines — powerful, but they introduce risk.