How not to be afraid of Claude Code

How not to be afraid of Claude Code After this video, you will not be afraid of running Claude Code in the terminal. Sounds crazy, I know. Trust me. Start by opening up a new Finder window and go into applications. Scroll down until you see utilities. Open it up, and then double click on terminal. Okay, now this lovely little page is gonna open. Now what this blank white box actually is, is a folder. Now when I say folder, I literally do mean folder. I know we're used to seeing them like this. But how that looks on the screen is how your computer sees folders. When you first open up the terminal, the first folder you get dropped into is the home folder. You might not even realize that you had a home folder, but you do. In Finder, you would find it by clicking on go and then home. Your home folder, by default, has the downloads folder inside of it, the desktop folder inside of it, but you can also add anything else you want in there. You already know how folder structures work. I don't need to explain this to you But that's important because folder structures is super important to how in your computer. Claude Code exists in one folder at a time. You can add Claude to multiple different folders, or just have it all be in one. I recommend creating different folders for each project that you want Claude to help with. So if I'm having Claude help me build a new app, that would all be within one folder. And if I'm having it help me with taxes, I would put that in a separate folder. Okay but what does it mean to put Claude in a folder? Back to the computer! Okay, so let's go with that new app idea. I can just create a new folder in Finder. Call it new app and save it. Now over on the terminal side, we're still in that home folder that we sort of initially spawn into. So we need to get from the home folder into the New App folder. Now the way that we do that is we first type L, S, and hit enter. That will list all of the things that are inside of the home folder that we're already in. And this list of folders looks pretty familiar. Because while this is the human readable version of the home folder, this is the computer readable version of the home folder. It's the exact same thing though. And because I created that folder we can see it's actually listed here: New App. So L, S lists everything, and so to go into new app, I just hit C, D, space and then I'll start typing the title of the new folder I'll hit tab, and that is gonna automatically fill in the thing from the previous list that fits where I could go. I'll hit enter, and now I am inside of the New App folder. From here to get Claude into this folder, all I need to do is open up a Chrome browser. I'm just gonna Google Claude Code, click on this link, and scroll down 'till I see this. This is our magic sentence. We're gonna copy that. Head right back over into the terminal, hit paste, and press enter. And now Claude exists inside of this folder. To activate it, I literally just type 'Claude' and hit enter. Hit allow, There's Claude. So now that I've made my App folder that Claude is inside of, I can start adding things into that folder that then Claude will have access to as it's going through the project. Designs, inspiration, research, literally anything. Claude with no issues will be able to access anything that I put inside of that folder. Claude can also access things outside of that folder, but it will ask for permission first. So just be careful what you give it permission to access. And from this point on, it's exactly like chatting with Claude in like a chatbot form as you would. Except now Claude is actually in your computer. You can open up windows, so if you say "fire up a Chrome window", "go to this website", it can just open a window on your screen. You can tell it to look for other devices on your Wi-Fi network and it'll like find smart TVs and give you a list of everything that's on the network. And lastly, most importantly, you can ask it questions. So if you've gotten this far, but you're like great I've given you research and info and designs, but like I've never made an app before, what the hell am I doing? Perfect. Ask it that, and it will guide you. So at the end of the day, don't let the terminal scare you. It's not scary at all. It's literally just a different way of looking at the folders in your computer. Have fun.