Next Steps: Your Action Plan

This Week

• Open Terminal (Cmd+Space, type “terminal”, hit Enter)

• Try basic commands: pwd (where am I?), ls (what’s here?)

• Install Claude Code: curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

• Test it worked: claude --version

• If something feels broken: claude doctor (auto-diagnoses issues)

Next Week

• Create ~/claude-projects folder

• cd ~/claude-projects

• claude - have first conversation

• Build tiny project (calculator, timer)

• Open result in browser

Next Month

• Learn basic Git (git init, add, commit)

• Create GitHub account

• Push first project to GitHub

• Deploy to GitHub Pages

• Share link with friend

Next Quarter

• Build project you actually want to use

• Learn React basics (when vanilla JS feels limiting)

• Contribute to open source (even just documentation!)

• Help someone else get started

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