Setting Up Claude Code Desktop: A Step-by-Step Guide

So in here first of all you want to set up your cloud account.

create a cloud account if you don't have one and then as soon as we start building things the plan will run out pretty quickly.

And so I'd recommend one or two approaches.

One you can add API credits.

This is the more expensive path but could work if you have it covered by your company and this is just the plan that they have set up.

if it's just you personally I recommend upgrading to a max plan which starts at $100.

You get a ton of usage subsidized essentially by Anthropic.

so it's, that's by far the cheapest way to this Once you have upgraded in either of these ways we are going to install Claude desktop.

This will follow just a normal Mac app or Windows app install process.

Come in here, select which ones make sense.

Once you've done that you're going to come in, sign in with your account.

And then you may land on any of these tabs.

where we want to go over here is to the code tab.

This is the cloud code tab.

If you get stuck you can come back over to chat and it's just your normal chat experience.

I'm going to exit out of these.

where we want to be is the cloud code tab and you may or may not get a warning that says we need to install git so that's what we're going to work on next.

So in order to install git these are paths diverge a little bit.

If you're on a PC you can just go straight to installing git on the git website.

Not sure why that loaded like that and click here to download the Windows version.

But if you're on Mac it's a little bit more complicated.

So what we're going to need to do is fire up the terminal and we're going to install first something called Homebrew.

And basically Homebrew is just going to let your computer install more code related things faster in the future.

So we're going to use this command right here and then we are going to find the terminal and come in here, paste the command and then hit Enter.

you'll note right here it wants my password.

This is the password for logging into, the Mac.

So the same one that you do when you log into your user, you add here a second.

Another thing to note is as you're typing in, I'm typing in right now, it's not going to give any feedback until you hit Enter.

So in here it's going to say, hey, I'm going to install some of these new things.

we hit enter to continue.

And then depending on the specs on your computer, it may take, quite a while, honestly.

up to, let's say five minutes, to install this.

And again, this is the most kind of technical mumbo jumbo that you're going to see in this process.

but we'll wait for this to finish.

Great.

Once that is finished, we're going to use this command that is now possible because Homebrew, is on the computer.

Go back to our terminal and install Git.

Similarly, you're going to see a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo.

You don't need to worry, about it.

What git is, is Git lets us save checkpoints in code as we go along.

and so there'll be different aspects of this class where we will focus more on code and more on, let's say workflow.

but Git is just an integral part of, if you're doing any coding, it lets you save checkpoints as you go.

Great.

We've now installed Git so we can come back here and use cloud code, with confidence, knowing that it will work.

So that's a wrap as far as the onboarding flow and looking forward to getting to know you.