This repository focuses on providing assistance for non-developers new to using code as a productivity tool.

The skills you will lean on to use these tools are:

• Critical thinking and analysis: Evaluating arguments, identifying biases, and assessing evidence

• Written and oral communication: Articulating ideas clearly across different formats

• Research skills: Gathering, organizing, and synthesizing information from diverse sources

• Reading and interpretation: Analyzing texts, symbols, and artifacts

• Information literacy: Distinguishing credible sources from unreliable ones

• Creative thinking: Approaching problems from different angles and developing ways to solve problems

To learn more about how I appraoch this, start here:

https://github.com/kasey6801/learn-by-building/blob/main/learning%20by%20building.md

If you're ready for a closer look, review the three documents I share for each project:

These three documents provide an overview of the process, specific to each project. The documents have been created with non-developers in mind.

Claude Music Setup

• An explanation of how development was done: https://github.com/kasey6801/learn-by-building/blob/main/1.1a%20claude-music-setup-v1-plan-explained.md

• A summmary of the interaction with the LLM: https://github.com/kasey6801/learn-by-building/blob/main/1.2a%20claude-music-setup-session-summary.md

• How the summary was completed: https://github.com/kasey6801/learn-by-building/blob/main/1.3a%20claude-music-setup-session-summary-meta.md

Your most valuable learning resource is, as always, community. Here's one that's informative, helpful and welcoming:

• https://themultiverse.school

Questions?

You can build understanding and skills along the way, by asking the LLMs (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Qwen, DuckAI, Lumo etc.) to help you learn.

Are you new to GitHub?

Github is an open source tool that enables version control for program files and supporting documents. To learn more, check out these resources:

• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/guide-to-git-github-for-beginners-and-experienced-devs
• https://learn.github.com

What format are these text documents in?

The text documents hosted here are in Markdown, which is a way to format documents using plain text.

• https://www.howtogeek.com/448323/what-is-markdown-and-how-do-you-use-it

• https://www.markdownguide.org

  • https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/

Learn more about Claude Cowork & Claude Code

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhRgmQPv2Sg

• https://ccforeveryone.com

• https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13345190-get-started-with-cowork

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntDIxaeo3Wg

• https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart

People to learn from

• https://www.criticalthinking.org/

• https://www.sabrina.dev/

  • https://www.youtube.com/@sabrina_ramonov

• https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/

  • https://www.youtube.com/@NateBJones

• https://github.com/lizTheDeveloper

  • https://www.youtube.com/@lizthedeveloper

Code that I share here is free to use unless otherwise noted.

Have fun learning!