Claude Code - Full Tutorial for Beginners

This video will teach you Claude code.

I'll go over everything and assume no prior knowledge.

I'll walk you through the setup and installation.

Step by step.

I'll show you how to utilize the tool, the best practices, multiple features,

and by the end of the video, you'll be comfortable using this tool to generate

some pretty insane outputs and awesome coding projects.

So with that said, let's get into it.

So without getting into too many details, cloud Code is effectively a command line

or terminal application that allows you to generate code,

debug projects, make websites, create applications, whatever it is that you want.

It is effectively anthropic version of, you know, cursor or something, right?

Where you can generate a bunch of code using the terminal.

Now this is prompt based coding, which means you don't need to actually write

any of the code yourself.

You simply type to an AI agent, you tell it what your desired output is

and then goes ahead and starts coding.

Now, oftentimes cloud code will be used in combination

with other developer tools, and I'll show you a few of them in this video.

But generally speaking, you do not need to be an expert to use this.

And even as a complete beginner, you can create some really cool projects.

So with that said, let's look at how we set it up.

Now, in order to get cloud code working, you are going to need a cloud subscription

which is paid.

So you're going to need a Pro Max teams or enterprise subscription or an API key

with some tokens or credits from the cloud console.

Now, I would suggest that

if you're just looking to mess around with this, get the cheapest plan from cloud.

You will run out of credits pretty quickly if you are using this for very heavy work.

But of course, test it first before you start going and buying a bunch of different credits.

It also matters what model you're using, which we'll talk about later,

which will determine what the overall price for all of the prompts that you send is going to be.

Now, generally, you're not going to be overbuild.

You'll just run out of credits, then you would have to buy more.

So don't worry about that.

Okay.

Now to install this is going to require that we work directly inside of the terminal.

So what we're going to do is we're going to open up a terminal or a command prompt or a PowerShell

instance, depending on the operating system that you're working on.

Now, if you are on windows, then I'm going to suggest that you open up PowerShell

so you can go to the windows search bar, search for PowerShell, and then open up a terminal like this.

And I'll just put it on the right hand side of my screen.

Now if you're on Mac or Linux then open up a normal terminal.

So just type terminal in the spotlight search.

And then you'll be in an environment where you can start using cloud code.

Now in order to install this I'm going to leave this documentation in the description

which gives you the commands that you can simply copy depending on your operating system.

So if you were on Mac or Linux then you can copy this curl command right here.

Just paste it into your terminal and run it.

If you are on windows and you're using PowerShell as I suggested, then you can copy this IRM command.

You can paste it, hit enter, and it should install cloud code for you.

If you're using the command prompt, maybe you're on an older version of windows.

Then you can copy this version right here.

Paste it in the command prompt.

Again, it will install the tool.

Cloud code is not a desktop application.

It actually runs directly inside of your shell or your terminal.

So in order to use this in the future, you will need to open up PowerShell again or terminal again,

or use this from some kind of tool in order to actually interact with cloud and generate code.

Now, once

it says it's installed, the way that you can test this is by simply typing Claude in your terminal.

So if you type Claude, you should get some kind of output here.

Now when you first run this, it will ask you to authenticate with your anthropic or cloud account.

So just do that.

Go into your browser, sign into your account and then you'll be good to go.

Now also whenever you run this for the first time and you type that command,

it's going to ask you to trust the current folder that you're inside of.

So we're going to go ahead and press on. Yes I trust the folder.

And then it's going to bring up the Claude Code UI.

Now at this point you should have got cloud code installed and just remember,

if you were to close the terminal or the PowerShell you would have to reopen this.

Right?

I'm just going to zoom in and then again type Claude and then you can press enter.

And again you get back into that user interface.

So don't worry if you lose it.

Now for some of you that are complete beginners and already this is a little bit intimidating.

Anthropic actually did create an easier way to write code using Claude.

It is not the same thing as Claude code, but it is very similar

and you can access that by downloading the desktop app for Claude.

So if you have an account with them, you can just download the desktop app.

If you do that, the app will look something like this.

From here, what you'll be able to do is switch between this chat and this code mode.

And if you go into the coding mode here, you'll be able to select a project.

You can write a prompt directly inside of here you can change the mode like coding,

asking, planning, right. You can add different files.

You can connect it to GitHub, you can choose your model and it's a lot simpler and easier to use.

So again, if you're a beginner you can just use this.

But if you want to get any serious work done, the CLI or the command

line tool which I'm showing you is what you're going to want to set up and have on your machine.

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