Terminal
The window where you type commands as text, instead of clicking. On a Mac it’s called Terminal, on Windows you use PowerShell.
How it appears in the course
You install it once, by typing one command in the terminal.
The terminal is a window where you type commands as text, instead of clicking buttons.
If the terminal tells you to close and reopen the window, do that.
Where you learn it
In module 00 · Installation and first steps, in the Claude Code for Beginners course.
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