Your Claude Guide
All Levels, All Tools
A slide-deck library built for BooAI BootCamp students: 4 levels of Claude fundamentals (adapted from all 18 claude101.com articles), 32 tool guides organized by role — from AI tools to UI design, second-brain note-taking, and actually building and deploying real web/mobile apps — a cross-tool Tool Picker, an LLM-theory primer, an LLM-models wiki (Frontier vs Local-First), a free mock certification exam, and a roundup of 9 free official AI courses. Use ← → to navigate any deck.
Note: most decks below are currently in Thai only. Decks marked EN available have a full English version — more are being translated over time.
Getting Started with Claude
Never opened Claude before? Start here — the basics, simple tricks to get good fast, and how to get Claude Certified for free
Claude for Everyday Work
Cowork, setting up your team on Claude, Design, Projects, making slides, and building your first Skill
Getting the Most Out of Claude
Train Claude to sound like you, stop hitting usage limits, move beyond one-shot prompting, Excel work, and writing that doesn't sound like AI
Claude at the Expert Level
Connectors for every app, Claude Code for people who'll never write code, and using AI properly at work
🧭 Pick the Right Tool for the Job
Job → Best-Fit Tool → Why
A cross-tool decision matrix across 5 role tracks (writing/research, coding, automation, visual content, personal assistant) — check this before diving into any single tool's deck
MCP, Skill, Plugin, Connector
4 commonly-confused terms — what each one is, how they differ, who defines them, with a single comparison table tying them all together
How LLMs Actually Work — Plain-English Primer
Tokens, context window, temperature, hallucination, embeddings, RAG, fine-tuning, Transformer/attention — 10 fundamentals with practical framing
Key LLM Models — Frontier vs Local-First
A map of the major model families, split cleanly into two lanes: closed Frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok) vs open-weight Local-First models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma, Phi), with a tradeoff table and a decision guide
✍️ Writing / Research / Documents
Gemini
The app, Gemini CLI, and the API — Deep Research, Gems, Canvas, Workspace, and building agents
NotebookLM
A research assistant grounded in your own sources — Audio/Video Overviews, Mind Maps, answers with citations
Perplexity
An AI answer engine + the Comet browser — every search mode, Deep Research, Spaces, and citation-checking habits
💻 Coding / Building Apps
Codex
OpenAI's coding agent — CLI, IDE, and cloud agent, bundled with ChatGPT Plus/Pro, compared against Claude Code
Copilot
Every mode — completion, chat, agent mode, and the coding agent that opens PRs from an assigned issue — plus a Claude Code comparison
Cursor
The editor vibe coders love — Tab completion, Chat, and Agent mode editing multiple files at once, compared to Copilot and Claude Code
⚙️ Automation / Connecting Systems
Make
Connect apps with drag-and-drop scenarios you can actually see — great for non-technical builders, compared to n8n and Zapier
Dify
Build LLM apps/agents visually — Workflow, RAG, Knowledge base, Plugins — self-host or use the Cloud
n8n
Workflow automation + an AI Agent node — connect LINE, spreadsheets, databases, anything — Dify vs n8n, which one fits your job
Zapier
The long-time market leader in automation — connects 6,000+ apps, easiest of the n8n/Make/Zapier trio but the priciest per task
OpenClaw
A personal AI assistant running on your own machine 24/7 — one gateway for 20+ chat platforms, Skills, cron jobs
🎨 Images / Video / Content
Flow
Cinematic AI video powered by Veo — creation modes, the credit system, and prompting tips for the shot you actually want
Higgsfield
Control the camera angle and keep the same character face across every shot — built for ads and UGC-style video, compared to Google Flow
Freepik (→ Magnific)
A 250-million-asset template library combined with AI generation/editing in one place — rebranded to Magnific in 2026
Remotion
Make video with React code — every frame is a component, great for personalized video at scale and turning data into animated charts automatically
HyperFrames
Claude Code writes HTML/CSS/JS and turns it into video — convert a URL/JSON into video instantly, trim filler in plain language, compared to Remotion
🚀 Build/Deploy Web-Apps All the Way to Customers
Vibe Code App Builders
Type a prompt, get a full working app — Lovable (full-stack + Supabase) and v0 (Vercel's UI generator), compared in one deck
Vercel
Deploy what Claude Code/Cursor/Lovable built so real people can reach it — per-PR previews, edge network, your own custom domain
Cloudflare
Register domains at cost with no markup + free DNS/CDN — pairs neatly with Vercel/Supabase, built for non-technical builders
Expo
Build one iOS/Android codebase — test on a real phone without owning a Mac, then ship to the App Store/Play Store
Retool
Drag-and-drop admin panels/dashboards wired straight to your database/API — when low-code makes sense vs. building it yourself
🖌️ Design / Diagram / Slide Tools
Claude Design
Claude's own built-in UI design feature (Anthropic Labs) — generate and edit web/app screens visually, compared to Figma/Canva
Figma
The market leader in collaborative UI/UX design — Figma Make, First Draft AI, and Dev Mode for handing off to engineers
Miro
An infinite online whiteboard for planning, brainstorming, and team workshops, with Miro AI helping cluster sticky notes
draw.io
Free diagramming/flowcharts, no signup required, store files anywhere (local/Drive/GitHub), with Confluence/VS Code plugins, compared to Miro
Stitch
Type a prompt, get UI design + web code from Google Labs (powered by Gemini), compared to Figma First Draft and v0
Gamma
Type a prompt or paste a document, get a polished presentation in minutes — great for last-minute talks, pitch decks, one-pagers
🤖 Personal / Team Assistants
Second Brain (Obsidian)
Linked note-taking with Obsidian — PARA, Zettelkasten, compared to Notion/Logseq/Roam Research
Hermes
A personal AI agent that "grows with you" — capabilities, setup, real usage examples, and how it compares to the alternatives
Grok
Grok for building agents and getting real work done — SuperGrok, DeepSearch, automated tasks, Grok Build, and the xAI API
AgentsTown
A 2D pixel-game control deck for AI work — Mission Board, multi-runtime Team Chat, Memory Palace — not yet public, a first look
🎓 Certification — Test Yourself
🆓 Free AI Courses — Learn Straight from the Source
Vibe Code Sprint + BootCamp Chiang Mai
A live 1-day workshop — hands-on build of a real AI Agent + Workflow you can use right after class, no coding background needed. Chiang Mai rounds July 17–18 & 24–25, 2026 (Bangkok round August 2026) · Early Bird from ฿7,599
ClaudeDuc — content adapted (Thai originals, English translations) from claude101.com (articles by Ruben Hassid) for BooAI BootCamp's teaching materials · all original content credit belongs to the original authors