# Start Here

Start Here: What You Can Build with Bash, The Terminal and the Mouse: Two Ways In, How This Course Works.

Updated: November 10, 2026

1. [What You Can Build with Bash](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/bash-what-you-can-build) (Novice): The terminal turns jobs that take an afternoon of clicking into one line, and a file of those lines is a small application of your own, which this course takes you all the way to writing.
2. [The Terminal and the Mouse: Two Ways In](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/bash-terminal-and-gui) (Novice): A file manager and a terminal are two doors into the same files on the same computer; each is better at different jobs, and this course gives you both so you can choose.
3. [How This Course Works](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/bash-how-this-course-works) (Novice): How Bash in Depth works on ask-codey.com, from reading a lesson and playing its Terminal Quest goals to running an exercise's checks with bats, mastering a skill and passing a module assessment.

Source: https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/bash-in-depth/topics/bash-start-here