Congrats to Cohort 5 of my Foundations of Claude Code workshop.

NICHOLAS, Rebecca, Keith, Felicia, Anoop, Lewis, Joanne.

As usual, we have learners from diverse backgrounds.

A trade finance banker. A commercial finance lead. An operations leader from public transport. A cloud solutions consultant. A startup marketer. An AI transformation consultant. A corporate finance and tax consultant.

Most had never touched a Terminal before.

Four rounds of iteration by earlier cohorts smoothed the flow. The setup and brief were done before the workshop, so we spent the five hours learning and building, not installing.

Here is what we cover in those five hours:

1. Foundations of Claude Code

Mental models for working with an AI agent (my favourite: a brilliant superintern with a drinking problem). What it is good at, where it drifts, and your job in the loop.

2. Context

Why the AI has no memory, what a context window is, and how to save your work in files, not the chat.

3. Version control with Git

The single most important habit: commit often, so you can rewind anything you break.

4. Design and build

AI drafts several design directions, you judge and pick. Then it scaffolds the site while I teach the theory.

5. Preview, review, iterate

Every AI output gets a human review before it is accepted. Polished is not the same as correct.

6. Test and deploy

Wire up a contact form that emails you on every enquiry, then push the site live on your domain.

7. Skills

Build a /write-article skill, a publishing engine for your blog after you go home.

The website is just the anchor. The real takeaway is the foundation, which carries over to documents, automation, data, and almost anything else you would want an AI agent to do.

Five cohorts in, the pattern holds. The people who get the most out of Claude Code are often not the ones who already code. They are the domain experts who finally have a way to build the thing in their head, without hiring a developer.

If you have been telling yourself this is not for you because you cannot code, that is probably the only thing standing between you and your first live site.

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If you want to learn Claude from a practitioner who happens to teach, I run a few Claude workshops.

Foundations of Claude. For business professionals who want practical insights on mastering Claude.

Details: https://lnkd.in/gJGVMzQJ

Foundations of Claude Code. For business professionals who want strong foundations in Claude Code by building your own website. This course is for anyone who has not touched a Terminal before.

Details: https://lnkd.in/e9r8kScw

Advanced Claude Code. For business professionals who have experience with Claude Code and want to learn how to orchestrate AI agents at a higher level.

Details: https://lnkd.in/eR6WPQnC

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