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Introduction to Claude
Section 1
30 minutes
Claude Code overview
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools. Available in your terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser.
Claude Code is an AI-powered coding assistant that helps you build features, fix bugs, and automate development tasks. It understands your entire codebase and can work across multiple files and tools to get things done.
it is a paid software
Install claude in your system
For macOS, Linux, WSL:
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
For Windows CMD:
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd
Then start Claude Code in any project:
cd your-project
claude
It might ask for the authorization (for the first time only )
Then you can ask teh question for the Claude in your terminal like
- what does this project do?
- what tech stack does this project use?
- explain project for me?
Vibe coding is the mode of software development where a person relies heavily on AI-Specifically LLMs to generate ,refine and debug code base on natural language prompt.
- plan english prompt
- AI generate the code
- Iterative Refinement
Other important commands for the better user of claude
1. shift ! # for the bash commands
'''
example:
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python3 app.py
'''