Claude Code for Beginners
A free Claude Code course from insiderOne University, in English, that takes about 2 hours. A hands-on Claude Code course: build a web page from plain English and put it online. Labs need a paid Claude plan. It ends in one assessed project. The course and the certificate are free. Anyone can verify the certificate at its own link, without an account.
Add it to your LinkedIn profile with the insiderOne logo, verifiable by anyone.
What you will be able to do
- Install Claude Code on Windows or a Mac and start it inside a project folder
- Build a one page website from a plain-English description and your own facts
- Keep save points in Git and undo a bad change with rewind or a commit
- Fix an error by pasting the exact message, reading the plan and testing the fix
- Write a CLAUDE.md file that holds your project's rules
- Publish your page on GitHub Pages and hand in a record of how you built and checked it
Students and early career people in India who have never used a terminal and want to build something real with Claude Code. You need a laptop and a paid Claude plan for the labs.
What is in it
- 1What Claude Code is, what it costs, and installing it12 min
- 2A first conversation: asking, reading and approving11 min
- 3Building a page from a plain-English description12 min
- 4Changing it safely: Git, and undoing a change12 min
- 5Fixing errors: paste the error, read the plan, test12 min
- 6CLAUDE.md: telling it your rules11 min
- 7Putting it online for free12 min
- 8Working well, and when not to trust it11 min
Build and publish your own small page or tool
The live link, your key prompts, one change you made by hand and why, and how you checked it works.
About 130 minutes in total.
Two levels
Finish the units and the project and you get the Certificate of Completion. Pass the live skill challenge on Claude Code at Practitioner level or above and it becomes a Verified Certificate, which anyone you send it to can check for themselves.
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing. The course and the certificate are free, and so is verifying it.
Can an employer check it?
Yes. Every certificate has its own page, and the code printed on it resolves there without anyone needing an account.
Do I need any experience?
No. These are written for students and people in their first job, and they assume nothing.
What do I actually walk away with?
The certificate, and the piece of work you made for the project. That goes into your insiderOne profile as a proof item, private until you choose to show it.
Know someone studying this?
The course and the certificate are free, and anyone they send it to can check it.