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· Peter Yang

Claude Code Beginner's Tutorial: Build a Movie App in 15 Minutes (2025)

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​ ​ Here's my complete beginner’s tutorial to using Claude Code.

I think Claude Code is the best AI agent available in the market today.

The best way to see what it’s capable of is to try it yourself. So I made this beginner tutorial to show you how to set up Claude Code and add a watchlist feature to a movie discovery app in just 15 minutes.

You’ll learn to use plan mode, Claude.md, and more.

(00:00) Installing Claude Code in terminal and Cursor (03:29) Cloning the movie app and getting Claude to explain the code base (07:37) Using plan mode to write a detailed spec before coding (10:44) Initializing claude.md for persistent project memory (13:43) Building a watchlist in one shot with proper planning

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