Get a real feel for how to work with an AI assistant called Claude — then put it to use researching and building a guide to pickleball.
Claude is an LLM — trained on huge amounts of text, so it can understand questions and write answers that make sense.
Type a question or instruction — a prompt. Claude predicts the best reply, but it can still get facts wrong.
Beyond chatting, Claude can search the web and build documents or mini-apps called artifacts.
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Explaining a tricky concept a different way, quizzing you before a test, breaking down a hard reading.
Drafting an email, planning a trip, turning a messy list of ideas into an actual plan.
Coding a game, designing a website, writing and illustrating a story — like the artifact you'll build today.
Before touching anything, watch the whole "Claude 101" playlist to see what this AI can actually do.
CLAUDE 101Six terms worth knowing before you start typing. Skim these — you'll run into all of them later.
Writing a good prompt: be specific about what you want, give context Claude wouldn't otherwise have, and say what format you want the answer in. "Explain pickleball" gets a vague answer; "explain the scoring rules of pickleball for someone who's never played" gets a useful one.
Time to actually use it. (Do this part with a parent nearby.)
Now put it all together: use Claude to research pickleball, then have it build a guide you could actually use.
Finish every checkpoint above to unlock the quiz. Get everything right to earn your certificate.