Claude AI for Beginners: Prompting, Claude Code & MCP

Claude AI for Beginners: Prompting, Claude Code & MCP

Learn how Claude AI thinks, master prompt engineering, hand over tasks, build with Claude Code and connect apps via MCP

What you’ll learn
Explain how Claude AI works: tokens, the context window, model choice and why it can be confidently wrong
Write prompts that get great results with the Who, What, Why, How formula, examples, tags and question-first prompting
Set up Claude Projects, memory and styles so Claude already knows your work and your voice
Turn files and web research into finished documents, spreadsheets, slide decks and live web pages
Hand Claude whole multi-step tasks, give it access to local folders and schedule recurring jobs
Connect Claude to Notion, Google Drive, Gmail and GitHub with connectors and MCP, and use them safely
Create reusable skills that teach Claude your own workflows, like a client proposal generator
Install Claude Code and work safely with permission modes, plan mode, a project handbook and Git save points
Build, review, secure and package a WordPress plugin with Claude Code, even as a beginner
Fact-check Claude, test its code and keep a human in the loop for anything that sends, deletes or pays

Requirements
No coding experience needed. If you can write an email, you can follow this course
A computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) with an internet connection
A free Claude account to start. Claude Code and some advanced features need a paid plan (Pro or higher)
Optional free tools for the projects: LocalWP, VS Code, Notion and a Netlify account

Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Most people use Claude AI like a very polite Google. Type a question, get an answer, close the tab. That works, but it’s like buying a car and only using it to play the radio.

This beginner-friendly Claude AI course shows you what Claude can really do, step by step. You’ll learn how Claude thinks, a simple prompt engineering formula that works, how to hand Claude whole tasks that end in real files, how to build a WordPress plugin with Claude Code, and how MCP connects Claude to apps like Notion, Google Drive, Gmail, and GitHub.

No coding background needed. If you can write an email, you can follow this course.

In this course, you will
Understand how Claude works: tokens, the context window, Haiku vs Sonnet vs Opus, and why it can sound confident and still be wrong

Write strong prompts with the Who, What, Why, How formula, plus three power moves: examples, tags, and letting Claude ask you questions first

Set up Projects, memory and styles so you stop repeating yourself

Turn files and web research into documents, spreadsheets, slide decks and live web pages

Hand over whole tasks: a messy receipts folder, a research report for a client, and recurring jobs that run on a schedule

Connect Claude to Notion, Google Drive, Gmail and GitHub with connectors and MCP, safely

Teach Claude your own workflows with skills

Install Claude Code and work safely with plan mode, a project handbook, and Git save points

Build, review, secure and package a real WordPress plugin with Claude Code

Connect Claude to a live WordPress site with MCP

Projects you’ll build
A personal prompt library for client emails, proposals and quotes

A portfolio page built in Claude and published free on Netlify

A clean spreadsheet built from a messy folder of receipts

A sourced hosting comparison report for a WooCommerce client

A Notion workflow where Claude writes pages for you

A Reading Time WordPress plugin with a settings page, a shortcode and security checks

Your final project: one real weekly workflow, handed over to Claude

Why learn from me?
I’m Ali Hossain, a web developer with 15 years of experience, mostly in WordPress. I teach web development, freelancing and practical tools to more than 380,000 YouTube subscribers, and I was named Best Instructor of the Year 2024 at Instructory. I use Claude every day to write code, plan my videos and run my content workflow in Notion. In this course, I show you exactly how.

No hype here. Claude won’t do your job for you, and I won’t pretend it will. What it will do is take the boring parts off your plate, so you can spend your time on the work that actually matters.

So pick one boring task from your week. By the end of this course, you’ll hand it to Claude.

This course is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Who this course is for
Beginners who use Claude AI like a search box and want it to do real work
Freelancers who want to spend less time on client emails, proposals, research and admin
WordPress and web developers who want to build plugins and sites faster with Claude Code
Content creators, marketers and small business owners who work in Notion, Google Drive and Gmail
ChatGPT or Gemini users who are switching to Claude or adding it to their toolkit
Not for experienced Claude Code users looking for advanced agent or API development

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