# Claude Code for Beginners
Zero to Shipping in 48 hours

- Price: $12.99 (Kindle ebook)
- Level: Beginner
- Pages: 234
- Best for: Complete beginners, zero experience
- You finish with: Empty folder to deployed app in 48 hours
- Series: Claude Code Playbooks, book 1 of 3
- Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4lMuvrE
- Web page: https://youcanbuildthings.com/books/claude-code-beginners

## What you get

You installed Claude Code. You typed something. It did... something. This book gives you the 48-hour system. Start with an empty folder. By hour 8, you have a deployed app. By hour 46, someone can pay you for it.

You installed Claude Code. You typed something. It did... something. Now you're staring at your terminal wondering if you're doing this right. This book is the 48-hour system that takes you from empty folder to deployed, polished, revenue-ready app. Every chapter is a block of hours with a specific deliverable.

## Chapters

1. You Installed Claude Code. Now What?: Map out what you'll build in 48 hours: a real app, deployed, polished, optimized.
2. How Claude Code Actually Works: Architecture, token costs, and when to use Claude Code vs ChatGPT, Cursor, or Copilot.
3. Hours 2-8: From Empty Folder to Live App: Empty folder to deployed app with a real database and one useful feature.
4. Hours 9-14: Fix the Ugly: Screenshot verification loops to transform working-but-ugly into polished.
5. Hours 15-20: Cut Your Token Bill in Half: Context management, effort levels, and LSP integration to slash costs 50%+.
6. Hours 21-28: The Features Nobody Told You About: Remote control, background agents, MCP servers, LSP, and voice mode, with the exact current commands.
7. Hours 29-34: Security and Testing: 20-point security audit and the 5 most common holes in AI-generated code.
8. Hours 35-40: Clean Up the Mess: Refactor bloated code, cut dead files, make Claude respond 2x faster.
9. Hours 41-46: Add a Price Tag and Launch: Payments, landing page, ship as a money-making product.
10. Hours 47-48: Your Repeatable Workflow: One-page checklist you can repeat on any project.
11. Everything Claude Code Can't Do (Yet): Real limits: design taste, visual evaluation, bloat, feature obsolescence.
12. What Comes Next: SKILL.md system, MCP servers, and your second 48 hours.

## Free guides from this book

- [5 Claude Code Power Features Beginners Aren't Using](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-power-features-mcp-agents.md): Remote control, background agents, MCP, LSP, and voice mode: five Claude Code power features beginners skip, with the exact current commands that work.
- [Add Stripe Payments to Your Claude Code App](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-stripe-payments-launch.md): Take your Claude Code app from free to first payment. Wire Stripe Checkout and a webhook, run the 5-gate launch checklist, and ship something people pay for.
- [Cut Your Claude Code Token Bill in Half](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-cut-token-bill-in-half.md): Your Claude Code bill is mostly overhead, not features. Cut your token cost with six fixes plus the one effort setting that quietly drains your account.
- [Fix Ugly UIs in Claude Code With the Screenshot Loop](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-screenshot-loop-fix-ui.md): Your Claude Code UI looks wrong but the code is fine? The screenshot loop fixes it in three quick rounds, because Claude has no eyes to see what you see.
- [Security-Audit Your Claude Code App Before Launch](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-security-testing-production.md): Your Claude Code app works but has holes a pen tester would laugh at. The 5 places AI code leaks data, plus the audit you run before real users log in.