Claude 101 - Completed!

A couple of weeks ago I posted about starting the Claude 101 online training course. I've now finished it. Didn't take long.

The course covers quite a bit: prompting basics, memory and context, Projects, Skills, Artifacts, and a few other features. Much of it was familiar territory that won't be new to a seasoned Claude user, but having it laid out in a structured way was still useful. It filled in a few gaps and gave me a clearer picture of how everything fits together.

The two areas most worth revisiting were Projects and Skills.

Projects are self-contained workspaces with their own memory, chat histories, knowledge bases, and custom instructions. I have used these already, but knowing how to best work with artefacts and setting your preferences for a project was a good insight.

Skills are essentially reusable expertise packages — folders of instructions and resources that Claude loads when needed. You describe what you want, answer a few questions, upload any relevant materials, and Claude builds a structured skill file you can use again and again. I have already mentioned the Karpathy council of experts skill in my previous post, that is a good one to have a go with. https://parrotsandpaperclips.com/now/#learning-all-about-claude

Next will probably be the Claude Code 101 course. I suspect that one will be a bit more of a stretch as I have only just started on my Claude Code journey on VS Code while learning about Python.