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Claude Chat

Learn Claude from scratch: effective prompts, Projects, documents, and limits — eleven hands-on lessons for true beginners, no experience needed.

Lessons

11 lessons
Chapter 1 · Introduction
01

Course Introduction and the Claude Ecosystem

An overview of this free Claude Chat course and the Claude ecosystem (Chat, Cowork, Code), with a map of every feature you'll see.

Chapter 2 · What You Can Trust
02

What Can You Trust: How an LLM Reasons

Why a language model estimates words probabilistically, what a hallucination is, and how to use Claude professionally by grounding answers in sources and documents.

Chapter 3 · Interface and Models
03

Interface, Models, and Settings

A tour of Claude Chat: chat and history, voice dictation, the Opus/Sonnet/Haiku models and tokens, attaching files, privacy and data training, personalization, memory, and costs.

Chapter 4 · Data Analysis
04

Analyzing Structured Data

Getting Claude to analyze CSV, Excel, and JSON files: running Python code, rankings, interactive charts, and pulling insights out of your datasets.

Chapter 5 · Artifacts
05

Artifacts: Mini Apps and Documents

What Artifacts are and how to use them to generate interactive mini apps, configurators, documents (docx, xlsx, PDF), and reusable code.

Chapter 6 · Web Research
06

Web Search and Deep Research

Targeted online searches with cited sources, plus Deep Research, which consults hundreds of sources and produces detailed, well-grounded reports.

Chapter 7 · Projects
07

Projects: Organizing Context and Knowledge

Using Projects as workspaces with memory, files, and dedicated instructions, so you can work on a topic, a client, or a grant without repeating context.

Chapter 8 · Skills
08

Skills: Teaching Claude Your Own Recipes

What skills are, how to create them to automate repeatable behaviors (like writing emails in your style), how the trigger works, and how to improve them over time.

Chapter 9 · Connectors
09

Connectors: Linking Claude to Your Apps

Connecting Claude to Gmail, Calendar, Notion, Drive, and other apps through connectors (MCP), reading and writing data with human control over permissions.

Chapter 10 · Plugins
10

Plugins and the Marketplace

Plugins as bundles of skills and connectors built by third parties: how to install them from the marketplace and customize them for your context.

Chapter 11 · Recap
11

Recap and Next Steps

A recap of the whole Claude Chat path, plus a preview of what's next in the ecosystem (Cowork and Code).

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