Course overview
This course is for PMs, designers and founders who want to build a real web tool without being developers, by steering an AI coding agent. In four stages, you go from an idea to a live web app, versioned on GitHub and redeployed automatically every time you change it.
Lesson objective
By the end of this overview, you will know what you are going to deliver (a live web app, versioned on GitHub) and the four steps the course takes you through to get there.
Topics covered
- Claude Code
- AI coding agent
- build a web app without coding
- AI-assisted development
- GitHub
Where it fits
Overview
What will I build in this course, and in what order?
Lessons in this module
- Course overview (this lesson)
What you will learn in the course
This lesson is part of the course Build and ship a web app with an AI coding agent
- Frame a tool (problem, user, inputs, expected result) and write its acceptance criteria before generating a single line of code.
- Choose between a chat with artifacts, an app builder and a coding agent based on the need, the level of control required and the risk.
- Write a build request for a coding agent (context, scope, constraints, verification) and get a plan approved before any code is written.
- Set up the environment (terminal, Node.js, Git, Claude Code), run the application locally and explain what the main files of the generated project are for.
- Evolve and debug the application in small, checked, committed iterations, giving the agent the right context (symptom, steps, error message).
- Review the generated app before sharing it (behavior, edge cases, secrets, personal data, experience) and decide whether to ship, fix or stop.
- Publish the app from GitHub to a host with continuous deployment, get a public URL and evolve the live version without breaking it.
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