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Screen-recorded YouTube walkthroughs showing Claude and Cowork doing the work, end-to-end, on real small-business use cases.

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  • Walkthrough

    DreamForge World - introduction

    Orientation video: a tour of the DreamForge world and what we'll build together across the Agentic App Builders lesson series.

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  • Walkthrough

    Agentic App Builders · Lesson 1 - Build your first website with AI

    Set expectations and get the lay of the land. By the end you'll know what you're building, what each tool you'll install does, and how to work with an AI coding partner.

    Learning objectives

    • Describe the finished website you will publish by the end of this course.
    • Explain in plain English what each tool you will install does.
    • Picture the journey from "code on your computer" to "site on the internet."
    • Set realistic expectations for working with an AI coding partner.
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    Agentic App Builders · Lesson 2 - Build your first website with AI

    Install your toolchain: VS Code, Node.js, and Git on Mac or Windows. End the lesson knowing where projects live, how to open a terminal in VS Code, and how to verify everything by reading version numbers.

    Learning objectives

    • Install Visual Studio Code, Node.js, and Git on either Mac or Windows.
    • Open a terminal inside VS Code and run your first commands.
    • Verify your installs by reading version numbers.
    • Know where your projects will live on disk and why that matters.
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    Agentic App Builders · Lesson 3 - Build your first website with AI

    Stand up your free GitHub and Vercel accounts and link them together. You'll learn in plain English what each one does - and what the free tier covers for a personal landing page.

    Learning objectives

    • Create a free GitHub account and understand what it stores.
    • Create a free Vercel account and link it to GitHub.
    • Explain in plain English the difference between GitHub and Vercel.
    • Recognise what "free tier" includes for a personal landing page.
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    Agentic App Builders · Lesson 4 - Build your first website with AI

    Pick your AI coding partner. Define agentic coding in plain English, compare Claude Code and Codex at a beginner-useful level, install one, and send your first useful prompt.

    Learning objectives

    • Define agentic coding in plain English.
    • Compare Claude Code and Codex at a beginner-useful level.
    • Pick one agent and install it.
    • Send your first useful prompt and read the response critically.
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    Agentic App Builders · Lesson 5 - Build your first website with AI

    Scaffold a real Next.js project with create-next-app, run the dev server, and visit your site at localhost:3000. Identify the three or four files you'll actually edit across this course.

    Learning objectives

    • Use create-next-app to scaffold a brand-new Next.js project.
    • Run npm run dev and visit your site at localhost:3000.
    • Identify the three or four files you will actually edit during this course.
    • Stop and restart the dev server cleanly.
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    Agentic App Builders · Lesson 6 - Build your first website with AI

    Replace the default Next.js homepage with your personal landing page in stages. Half of the lesson is giving your agent enough context - the other half is reading each change before accepting it.

    Learning objectives

    • Give your AI agent enough context that it produces useful, on-target edits.
    • Replace the default Next.js homepage with a personal landing page in stages.
    • Read each change in src/app/page.tsx and confirm it before moving on.
    • Recognise when to start a fresh prompt versus continuing a conversation.
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