The 13-page guide that takes you from "what is Claude Code?" to running real workflows on your laptop today — for free.

Most "AI coding" tutorials in 2026 assume you already know what a terminal is. This one doesn't.

What you'll learn

• What Claude Code actually is — and why it's different from chatgpt.com / claude.ai

• The 60-second terminal primer — find the terminal on Mac/Windows/Linux, learn the only 5 commands you'll ever need

• Install in 3 steps — Node, the official installer, and authentication. Every "what if it fails?" already answered

• Your first 10 minutes — open a project, run your first prompt, watch Claude edit a real file

• The daily flow — three patterns (ask, edit, build) most people never discover

• Troubleshooting — the 6 things that go wrong on first install, fixed in one line each

• What to do next — a 7-day plan to actually stick with it

Why this is free

Anthropic gives most of this away in their docs. What this guide adds is the terminal explainer for non-technical readers plus the structural decisions Anthropic's docs assume you already know.

Who I am

I'm Toddy. Mechatronics engineer by training, using Claude Code every day on a complex production codebase. Not a guru — just a practitioner with the scar tissue of what works.

@buildwithtoddy on Instagram — ~2,500 followers, 200K+ video views.

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