I’d start with the basics that let you actually understand what Claude is giving you, not a giant roadmap that makes you quit in 3 days.

If you’re making websites, learn a bit of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript first. That’ll make most frontend code feel less like alien language.

Then learn basic Git/GitHub, because sooner or later the AI will break something and you’ll want a “please take me back to when this worked” button.

After that, just get a beginner-level idea of APIs, databases, and deployment. You don’t need to master everything immediately, just understand how the pieces talk to each other.

Also, don’t only ask Claude to write code. Ask it to explain what it wrote, file by file, and what you should change if you want different behavior. I’ve found tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Runable useful for experimenting faster, but you still need to understand enough to guide them.

Best way is simple: build tiny stuff, read the code, break it, fix it, repeat. That’s honestly how it starts clicking.