Day 7 — Week 1 Checkpoint

Time: ~30 min · Date: Fri May 1 You made it through six lessons. Today is a breath. No new material — just stitching things together and surfacing what you don't quite get yet.

Self-quiz

Don't look back at the lessons. Try to answer from memory. Then check.

Concepts

1. What's the difference between Claude.ai and Claude Code?
2. What are the four parts of a good prompt?
3. What's the Mac equivalent of Ctrl + C?
4. What's the Mac equivalent of Alt + Tab?
5. In markdown, how do you make text bold?
6. In markdown, what does a checkbox look like?
7. What does cd ~ do in a terminal?
8. What does ~ mean in a path?
9. What are the five steps of the SDLC?
10. Why does iteration matter — both in software and when working with Claude?

If you got 8+ without flinching, you're solid. If anything stumped you, that's where to spend extra time.

What clicked

In your notes (paper, Word, anywhere — you don't have Obsidian on your Mac yet), write down:

• Two ideas that are now genuinely clearer than they were a week ago.
• One thing you're excited to try.

What didn't

Write down:

• Anything that's still fuzzy.
• Anything you read and thought "wait, why?" but didn't follow up on.
• Any moment in an exercise where you got stuck.

These become questions for Chris.

Recommended: send Chris your questions

Pick whatever channel works (text, Slack once you're set up). Format:

Hi — pre-laptop questions, from this week:

1. <thing>
2. <thing>
3. <thing>

He'd much rather answer them now than find out later that something didn't land.

Your plan for week 2

Review the overview so you know what's coming.

Plus: make sure your three accounts are sorted. You'll need:

• Apple ID
• GitHub account (github.com/signup)
• Anthropic account (claude.ai)

Get them done by end of week 2 day 11. We'll double-check in lesson 11.

Stretch: try a real Claude task

Before next week, pick one real-estate task this week where you'd normally spend 15+ minutes writing something — and let Claude do the first draft. Anything: an email, a listing description, a follow-up after a showing.

Then iterate on the output. Don't accept the first version. Push it.

When you find a prompt that works well, save it (paper, notes app, anywhere). You're starting your personal cookbook.

Done?

• Day 7 complete
• Quiz attempted
• Questions sent to Chris (or written down to send later)

Next: Day 8 — AI in real estate