Claude Code, for people who do not code

Build again, the classic way

30 min

You built through the app door. Now build through the classic one and feel that it is the same engine. The workflow is identical: describe, watch, approve, open, refine. Claude Code asks permission before creating or changing files, so you stay in the loop.

Practice

In your empty my-first-app folder, with claude running, paste this (edit the topic to something you care about):

Before writing any code, ask me 3 or 4 questions, then propose a short plan. I want a beautiful single page website: a personal collection page for my [favorite films / travel photos / books to read] with a search box and a way to filter by category. It must work by just opening the file in a browser, no installation. Use placeholder content I can easily replace.

Approve its steps. When it finishes, find index.html in the folder and double-click it. That page in your browser? You made that.

If it went wrong

The build fails, or the page opens blank? Paste the error, or a screenshot of what you see, back into Claude Code and say "fix this". That is not a failure of the workflow, that IS the workflow. Nobody's first build is clean, including the people who built this course.

Done when: your page opens in a browser and you have asked for at least two changes ("make the header green", "add a sort button") and watched them appear.