Claude Code Guide (Opus 4.5) for Beginners 🚀

Here is your complete beginners guide to Claude Code. This is my full end to end workflow. You'll be a MASTER by the end of the video.

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Claude Code:
https://code.claude.com/docs

Visual Studio Code:
https://code.visualstudio.com

Claude Design Skill:
https://x.com/trq212/status/1989061939625144388?s=20

Initial prompt:
I want to build a project management app for vibe coders.
it should be a kanban board that also has a todo list next
to it and a note taking area. The kanban board should
have todo, in progress, and complete and have cards for
the tasks you can drag and move around. make it a clean,
simple, dark mode interface that doesn't look AI generated

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Why it's the best
2:27 CLI vs extension vs desktop
4:34 Claude Code setup
4:55 Pricing
6:13 Setting it up
7:44 Slash commands
8:58 Plan mode
9:41 First prompt
13:49 V1 of app
14:50 Claude Skills
15:39 Improving UI
16:37 Adding more features
18:47 Debugging
20:26 Github
21:07 Architecture of an app