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Build session

Meet Claude Code

What an agent actually is, what a terminal is (and why you barely need one), and your first ship: Hello World, live.

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14:45
start
90m
duration
3
exercises
3
things you leave with
Welcome

The last session of Day 1 is the whole week in miniature. You learn how products actually get made: spec, build, ship, iterate. Then you meet Claude Code, an AI agent that does not just talk about code but writes it, runs it, and deploys it. You will use it as a friendly app, not a scary terminal (though I will show you the pro view for fun). By standup your team has a page on the internet.

You walk out with
A one-page spec with ONE feature
First contact with an AI agent
A live URL with your names on it
Why this session exists

Shipping on Day 1 breaks the biggest mental barrier in the room: the belief that putting something on the internet is hard. After today, deploying is normal. That changes what you attempt all week.

The arc, minute by minute
14:45
How products get built: spec to ship to iterate, plus the knife
15:10
Spec v0: one page, ONE feature, Claude attacks your scope
15:35
Claude Code first contact: live demo, spec to running page
15:50
Every team ships Hello World: name + thesis, live URL
Exercises
01
The knife
List everything v1 could do. Cut until removing one more line kills the point. What survives is your spec.
02
Spec attack
Feed the spec to Claude: what is too big for four days? What breaks first?
03
Hello World
Your team page, deployed. Then save a version: commit before you experiment, always.
prompt · give this to the room verbatim
Here is my product idea and my one-page spec draft. Attack it: what is too big for a 4-day build? What would you cut? What breaks first?
Tools in play
Claude CodeClaude
Materials to prep
Spec templatesClaude Code set up per team laptop
The checkpoint · nothing counts unless it is live
16:15 standup: every URL loads on the classroom screen.