Simple explanation
Welcome to Day 7. Build Day. No new concepts today. Just building. You have everything you need. Today you put it all together. Your Week 1 toolkit: ✓ Claude Code installed and running — Day 1 ✓ The 4-part prompt formula — Day 2 ✓ Plan Mode for complex changes — Day 3 ✓ GitHub branch first habit — Day 4 ✓ Auto Mode for speed — Day 5 ✓ Error message recovery — Day 6 Today you use all of it at once. This is your first complete build cycle — from empty folder to working homepage.
What to do
Follow these steps in order. Do not skip any. Step 1 — Create your branch Open GitHub Desktop. Create a branch called "week-1-homepage." Step 2 — Write your one-page brief Before opening Claude Code — answer these in a notepad: — What does this site do in one sentence? — Who is it for? — What is the one thing visitors should do? Step 3 — Open Claude Code in Auto Mode Navigate to your project folder in the terminal. Type claude. Press Shift + Tab to turn on Auto Mode. Step 4 — Use the 4-part formula Paste this prompt — filling in your own details: "I am building a homepage for [what your site does]. The visitor is [who they are]. Build a complete homepage with: a navigation bar with Home, About and Contact links; a hero section with a main headline that says [your headline] and a button that says [your button text]; a section with three benefit boxes explaining what makes this useful; a simple footer with copyright. Style everything clean, minimal, warm, modern and spacious. Do not add anything I have not asked for." Step 5 — Review the result Type npm run dev in a new terminal window. Open localhost:3000 in your browser. Does it look right? Does the navigation work? Does the button exist? Step 6 — Fix anything that needs fixing Use the 4-part formula for each small fix. One fix at a time. Check after each one. Step 7 — Merge back to main When you are happy — open GitHub Desktop. Merge "week-1-homepage" back into main. Your working homepage is now saved permanently. You have just completed Week 1. Seven days ago you had never opened Claude Code. Today you have a working homepage built by you using AI — without writing a single line of code yourself.
Copy-paste prompt
I am building a homepage for [describe what your site does in one sentence]. The visitor is [describe who they are]. Build a complete homepage with: a navigation bar with Home, About and Contact links; a hero section with a heading that says "[your headline]" and a button that says "[your CTA]"; a section with three benefit boxes; a simple footer. Style everything clean, minimal, warm, modern and spacious. Do not add anything I have not asked for.
Course note
Key takeaway
Branch first. Brief first. Auto Mode on. 4-part formula. Review in browser. Fix one thing at a time. Merge when done. That is the complete build cycle — and you just did it.