Learning Timeline
Key Insights
The 'Vibe Coding' Concept
You don't need to memorize technical commands or complex code syntax. Simply 'chat' with Claude Code using natural language to instruct the AI to build features on your behalf.
Tips for Understanding AI Code
If you don't understand the lines of code generated or deleted by the AI in GitHub Desktop, you can copy & paste them into Claude or ChatGPT to request an explanation in simpler terms.
Prompts
Dark Mode Feature Generation Command
Target:
Claude Code
add a dark mode
Step by Step
Adding a Dark Mode Feature Using Claude Code
- Launch the Claude Code interface within your project directory via the terminal.
- Type a command in natural language, such as 'add a dark mode', and press Enter.
- Wait for Claude Code to analyze the existing code and automatically update the relevant files.
- Open the GitHub Desktop app to review all the code changes made by the AI.
- Verify the code changes in the 'Changes' panel. If needed, you can copy the code into ChatGPT to get a more detailed explanation of the logic used.
- In the bottom-left corner of GitHub Desktop, enter the title 'dark mode update' in the 'Summary' field.
- Enter additional notes like 'added dark mode' in the 'Description' field.
- Click the blue 'Commit to [branch name]' button to save the changes to your local repository.
- Click the 'Push origin' button at the top to upload the changes to your GitHub account.
- Open your web browser, access your GitHub repository, and 'Refresh' the page to confirm the changes have been successfully updated on that branch.
