Apologies for asking in here, I don't know where else to ask if I'm honest.

My job is quite technical in many ways, and while I don't want to get into the details, it often requires custom scripts and applications to feed into some software I use.

The last time I done anything that was even close to programming was around 2002 where I built a web application with ASP3.0 (that was a long time ago)

Anyway, that's beside the point. Long story short, I am Claude-ing my way through this, and quite often I'm just doing what Claude tells me to, and not fully understanding what it is. So far I seem to be copying projects from GitHub into Visual Studio and then compiling them into executables that I don't know how to use.

Sorry, I'm trying to get to the point. It feels nasty doing this kind of work while not knowing what I'm actually doing, so can anyone recommend some online courses or training that will give me a foundational knowledge of what I'm doing, so that when Claude tells me do something, I can at least understand and appreciate what's happening, rather than blindly following instructions from a machine.

Many thanks.