Mark Nguyen
CEOPassionate trainer focused on helping professionals realise better opportunities in work and business.
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The Claude Code Essentials Workshop
The terminal tool everyone says you should be using, explained properly - and running on your own project by six
Some of the companies where our students come from
What you'll gain
Claude Code, actually installed
Running on your own machine, Mac or Windows, before the first break.
A change you understand
Ask for something, watch the files change, and know exactly what happened and why.
The confidence to undo anything
Throw away what it just did and get back to where you were, no harm done.
A habit that avoids messes
A plan you can read and argue with, before a single line of code gets written.
How it sticks
A workshop designed for lasting impact
Discover
You see the actual gap - not clever prompting, but giving Claude your context and your own material to work on.
Build
Set up around your own work, and running on it before the session is half over.
Trust
The two places Claude will mislead you, caught in seconds - so using it well and using it safely become one habit.
Compound
Three of your own jobs, packaged up to rerun next week, without starting from a blank chat.
About this session
Everyone says you should be using it. Nobody says how to start
There is a particular kind of frustration reserved for Claude Code. Everyone around you says it has changed how they work. You installed it once, opened a terminal, typed something, got a wall of text back, and quietly closed the window. Nobody was rude about it - nobody explained it either.
The problem is that the good introductions are written for people who already work in a terminal all day. They start three steps past where most people actually are, and they skip the two things that would make the whole thing feel safe: how to see what it just did, and how to undo it.
So that’s where this afternoon spends its time. We install it together, on both platforms, and nobody moves on until every screen has it working. We make a real change to a real project and then read it properly - what changed, why, whether you’d have done it that way. And we learn to throw all of it away cleanly, early, because being able to undo is what makes people willing to be bold.
After that the two habits that matter: getting a plan you can argue with before any code gets written, and giving Claude the standing context about your project so you stop re-explaining it every time. Then an honest block on it going wrong - what a wrong path looks like early, and what to do about it.
It’s deliberately small. When the install fails on your machine and not on anyone else’s, somebody needs to look at your actual screen - which is the whole reason to do this live rather than watching a video at 1.5×.
This is for you if…
- You keep hearing about Claude Code and haven't got past installing it
- You work near code - analyst, designer, PM, founder, junior engineer
- You've got a project you'd like to change, or would like one
- You'd rather build one habit properly than watch ten things demoed
Probably not, if…
- You already use Claude Code daily - this will be slow, and the advanced session is coming
- You want to leave with a finished app on the internet - that's Claude for App Builders
- You can't install software on your laptop
- You want a comparison of AI coding tools before choosing one
The workshop agenda
Installed by quarter past, changing real code by half four
A beginners' session that doesn't spend two hours on theory. The running order below is UK time; the session times at the top of the page are shown in yours.
- 15:00 15 min
Welcome, and what you'd point it at
What everyone works on, and what they'd like to change about it. If you haven't got a project, we'll get you one - nobody sits this out.
- 15:15 25 min
Installing it, together
Mac and Windows, side by side, including the two things that go wrong most often. We don't move on until every screen in the room has it running.
- 15:40 30 min
Your first real change
Point it at the project, ask for something small, and watch what happens. Then read the change: what it edited, why, and whether you'd have done it that way.
- 16:10 10 min
Break
Coffee, stand up, look out of a window. Back at twenty past.
- 16:20 35 min
Undo, and why it makes everything else possible
Throwing work away cleanly, keeping what's good, and never being one wrong instruction from a mess. This block is what lets you be bold for the rest of the afternoon.
- 16:55 35 min
Plan mode, and giving it context
Getting a written plan before any code, and writing the project file that stops you re-explaining your setup in every new session. We build yours on the day.
- 17:30 20 min
When it goes wrong
Spotting a wrong path early, stopping it, and getting back on track. Plus the honest limits - the jobs it's bad at, and how to recognise one before you've lost an hour.
- 17:50 10 min
Packaging it up, and Monday morning
What to try first on your own, and the one habit worth keeping from today.
Details, agenda and timing subject to change.
Before you book
What happens next
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Your ticket arrives in your inbox
It has your joining details, your receipt and a calendar invite, ready to add straight away.
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You get a bespoke setup guide
Everything installed and ready before the day, so no session time is lost to downloads. You and your fellow students start straight on real work.
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The workshop itself
Our instructors show you how to use Claude, drawn from their own experience in industry. Then you do the real work, and leave with workflows you can use the very next morning.
Need to move to another date, or can't make it any more? Reply to your confirmation email and we'll sort it. You can cancel up to 21 days before the workshop and we'll refund you in full.
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Arpan Bakshi
Chief Growth Officer & Director of EducationLeads curriculum design and workshop delivery at Atlas Learn. Formerly an educator and trainer, specialising in breaking down complex technical concepts into accessible, hands-on learning paths.
Before you book
Questions people actually ask
Bring the laptop and the project you've been meaning to tidy up
Three hours, a small group, and Claude Code running on your own machine by the end of the first half hour. Change your mind? Cancel up to 21 days before and we'll refund you in full.