00:00Cloud code is now natively supported on Windows, which makes the setup process super easy

00:04We no longer need things like WSL to get Claude Code working

00:07So, in this video, I'll show you how to set up Cloud Code on your machine, and I'll also show you how to add it to popular IDE like Cursor or VS Code

00:15To get started, there's basically two prerequisites

00:20You need Node.js installed, so you can simply download and install it from node.js.org

00:27I'll leave a link to this page in the description of this video, but all you have to do is go to get NodeJS

00:30Then on this page, scroll down to Windows Installer

00:37Then open a file that you just downloaded

00:39Click on next

00:39Click on next again

00:41Next

00:41Then let's click on finish

00:44And that's actually all we have to do to set up Node.js

00:46And then you need some sort of claude account

00:49So either you need to be subscribed to their pro plan or their max plan

00:53And each of these plans give you access to claude code

00:57So you won't pay anything extra as long as you stick within the limits of the plan

01:01So you might be wondering how many messages are actually included in your subscription plans

01:05And how it works is you get a certain amount of messages

01:09And according to Perplexity, you get about 45 messages that's included in the pro plan

01:14And these reset after 5 hours

01:16And with the max plan, you just get a lot more messages

01:21When you reach these limits, you can still continue to use Claude Code

01:25Claude Code will just ask you if you're willing to continue on the pay as you go basis

01:30So basically, you only pay for the API usage

01:33Alternatively, you can pay as you go using the API console

01:39So if you want to go with the API usage route, go to anthropic.com/api, then click on start building, and then create your Anthropic account

01:47Now, you will need to load some credit onto this account

01:52Simply go to this menu, then go to settings, then from bidding, simply click on buy credits to add some credits to your account

01:59I think you can add as little as $5 to your account

02:02Either way, whether you're subscribed to Claude or you've got an Anthropic API account, you should now be ready to start using Claude Code

02:11To install claude code, open up your command prompt and enter npm install-g atanthropic aai/claude code and press enter

02:21After installing these dependencies, simply run the command claude

02:26Now we can select our theme

02:29I'll actually go with option three which is dark mode colorlind friendly mode

02:33And now we can select our login method

02:35As I mentioned earlier, if you've got a Claude subscription, you can use Claude code as well

02:40Or if you simply want to pay for the API usage, you can use the Anthropic Console account instead

02:46And because I've got the Pro subscription, I'll simply go with option one

02:51Now, this will open up this tab in your browser, and you might see this message

02:56All you have to do is go back to the command prompt and then controllclick on this URL instead

03:00This will now ask you to authorize your account with Enthropic

03:05So let's click on authorize

03:07We will then get this code

03:09So let's copy this and then paste that back into the command prompt and press enter

03:15And then let's press enter to continue

03:17We will now see these security notes and all we have to do is press enter to continue

03:22And that takes me to the different ways in which you can use claude code to write your code

03:28The first is to run it in the terminal directly in a folder or we can embed it into our IDE like cursor

03:34So let's have a look at the first option here

03:37I've created a new folder called snake game and I'm going to open up the command prompt in this folder

03:43Now what we can do is run that claude command

03:46And now claude will only have a view of the files in this specific folder

03:50And now we can interact with this agent and ask it to write some code for us

03:55If you need help with any of the commands that's possible within this window, simply press slash

04:00And here you can see a whole bunch of possible commands

04:03But we can also enter help

04:06And then this will show us a full list of all the possible commands

04:11Now, what I'm interested in is to write a bit of code

04:16Let's say build the snake game in Python

04:21Be sure to use a virtual environment as well

04:23All right, let's press enter

04:26And now our agent is running

04:28We can see how long it's taking

04:30We can also see the token usage as well

04:32And it's cool to see that our agent created this to-do list

04:34So we can see exactly where we are in the process

04:39All right, so our agent has actually stopped the process and it's waiting for our input

04:43It's asking our permission to run this command to create this virtual environment

04:48So let's say yes

04:48Now it's asking us to activate the virtual environment and to then install Pygame

04:57Let's approve this

04:57I can see it's actually run into some sort of issue with running this command and it's adjusted the command now

05:03So let's press yes

05:06And now it's just trying to run a different type of command since this one also failed

05:10And this time pygame is indeed installing

05:13So it seems like it managed to come right now that it set up the virtual environment and installed Pygame

05:19It's moved on to the next item in the to-do, which is to create a snake game

05:24All right, so the agents now generated all of this code, and now it's simply asking us if we want to create this file

05:30So, I'm actually going to say yes, and don't ask again for this session

05:34So, this simply means the agent will continue to make changes to files without having to stop and ask for our permission

05:40And finally, it looks like it actually wants to run the file now

05:44So, let's say yes

05:44And look at that

05:44We now have a working snake game

05:48Awesome

05:50So, let's try to go off screen

05:50And cool

05:53So, game over

05:53Press space to restart or escape to quit

05:56Our game is working

05:59Awesome

05:59Now, let's have a look at adding claw code to our IDE

06:01All right

06:04So, I've opened up the snake game folder in cursor, but you can follow these exact same steps in other IDEs like VS Code as well

06:11All you have to do is open up the integrated terminal and run the command claude

06:16By running that command, we actually installed the claude code extension in our IDE

06:20So if I go to extensions, we can see claude code over here

06:26And we can indeed see that it is installed

06:29And now what we could do is maybe split this terminal

06:33So I'll actually split this

06:33So I've got another terminal on the right

06:35And in this terminal I'm going to activate my virtual environment

06:40So this way I've got claw code on the left where I can request for changes and on the right I can view the terminal to see things like error messages and the likes

06:50So let's try this out

06:53Let's say describe this project

06:57I'm just going to make a bit more space here and let's have a look at this

07:01So it says I'll explore the project structure

07:03You can see all the files

07:06So it sees the snake game file and the env path and then it says it's got this main file and we get some of the games components like the snake, the food, the game itself

07:17The board is an 800x 600 pixel game and then we can control it with the arrow keys and the likes

07:25Let's try something silly like turn this into a twoplayer snake game

07:32Player scores should be displayed at the top and the players lose if they collide with each other

07:45And as we saw before, we get that to-do list

07:47Now, we can see that it's going to be busy with this option in the to-do list

07:51And let's approve all of the changes

07:54So, what's very cool is we can see the token usage

07:56And we can also press escape if you wanted to interrupt this generation

08:01And that gives us an opportunity to stop the agent and maybe course correct its decisions

08:05Right

08:05So apparently the game was changed

08:07So I'm actually going to run the game in the other terminal

08:12So let's run snake game.py

08:14And it seems we do have a two-player game now

08:17But the one player just crashed into the wall

08:19So the game ended

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