Claude for Complete Beginners
What Claude is, how to ask it good questions, and where it saves you time at work.
From your first prompt to your first AI agent
AI is now part of every data, reporting and programming job. Learn to use it well, and then to build with it, through live sessions, hands-on courses, the Syvara AI Coach and 1:1 coaching with Dr. Sharon. No experience needed.
Write and fix SQL, draft DAX measures, document reports and automate routine tasks with AI as your assistant.
Protect private data, check AI answers for accuracy and know when not to trust them. Every course builds these habits.
Go beyond chatting: connect AI to your data and tools, and build agents that take action for you.
Pick the path that fits your goal. Both start with the same free session.
No coding needed
Claude for beginners, Skills, and Cowork: short live sessions to try each tool.
Use Claude every day for SQL, Power BI, reports and analysis.
Bring your own reports, data or workflow and set up AI for it together.
Novice to AI agent builder
Prompting, the Claude API and putting AI to work on real data.
Tool use, MCP, retrieval, multi-agent designs, evaluation and safety, ending with a capstone project.
Learn with Dr. Sharon on Zoom, ask questions as you go, and keep the recording.
What Claude is, how to ask it good questions, and where it saves you time at work.
Eight ways to work with Claude, side by side. Search, switch between everyday and technical examples, or tell it what you want to do and it points to the right tool.
See Claude Cowork, Claude Code and Projects in action, live: when to use each one, with real examples you can copy.
Go from Claude power user to builder: 4 live 2-hour sessions plus Demo Day, office hours after each session, and your own Budget Dashboard app built with Claude Code.
What AI can do for you, and how to start using it safely. No experience needed.
Teach Claude how you work: what Skills are, then build your first one and use it in claude.ai and Claude Code.
Video, reading, hands-on labs and quizzes. Every course starts with free preview lessons.
A free one-hour mini-course: use AI to write, explain and fix SQL queries safely, and check every answer like a professional.
A free one-hour mini-course: use AI to write, explain and fix Power BI DAX measures, and test every answer before you trust it.
A free one-hour mini-course: use AI to write SSRS dataset queries and expressions, document your reports, and check every answer before your users see it.
A free one-hour mini-course: use AI to write, explain and fix Python code, and learn faster without skipping the learning.
A free one-hour mini-course: use AI for DBA work safely. Write monitoring queries, review AI-written scripts, and spot the red flags before they touch a server.
Use Claude as a daily work partner: write and debug SQL, Python and DAX, analyze files, document your work and automate tasks, safely and responsibly.
Build AI agents that take action: the Claude API, tool use, MCP servers, retrieval, multi-agent designs, evaluation and safe deployment, ending with a capstone.
Stuck on a query, a DAX measure or a bug? Ask the coach from any lesson: it knows the lesson and gives hints that help you learn, day or night.
Run the SQL and Python that AI writes for you, right in your browser, and check it really works.
$75/hour with Dr. Sharon. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Join the free "New to AI?" session, or bring AI training to your team.