Start simple and use git branches early
Six months from zero to iPhone apps: what he wishes he'd known · Reddit r/ClaudeAI · u/CrackityJones33 · Aug 2026
A non-coder lists lessons from six months: start simple, stop working on main, plan features first, and don't let it become a 14-hour-a-day habit.
The honest numbers
- Says six months from no coding to working iPhone apps
- Says his first game took about five hours
As stated by the source. Not independently verified.
Lesson
Make your first project stupidly simple, and start using git branches as soon as it matters.
Fix prompt
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I'm new to building with Claude Code. Be my patient teacher. 1) Look at my project and explain its structure in plain English: what each main folder and file does. 2) Teach me the 5 basics I most need right now (e.g. git commits and branches, env vars, how deploys work, reading an error message, backups), each with one tiny exercise in my project. 3) Suggest a small next feature that's a good learning step, and how to ask you for it in small, testable pieces. Don't change code without asking me first.
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