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Mastering Windsurf: From Setup to Real Projects

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Unlock the full potential of Windsurf and make your daily coding workflow faster and smarter. This practical course helps developers use AI-assisted coding in real work — from setup and core features to building a real project, writing better prompts, and creating reusable workflows inside the editor. Throughout the course, you’ll explore: Windsurf Fundamentals: Set up Windsurf and learn its main features, including Tab completions, inline chat, chat interface, and faster ways to work with your code. Windsurf Basics for Real Use: Understand why Windsurf matters, common developer use cases, pricing plans, limitations, and key privacy basics to know before using AI in daily development. Working with Chat Modes and Context: Learn how to use different chat modes such as Ask, Manual, Agent, and Plan, how to provide better context, and how to write clearer prompts for more accurate results. Organizing Your Codebase: Learn how Windsurf works with your project context, how to control ignored files and folders, and how to use rules, memories, and commands for more consistent and reusable AI output. Advanced AI Workflows: Explore Agent Skills and Subagents to create more powerful and repeatable workflows for development tasks. Prompt Engineering Essentials: Learn prompt engineering basics, common mistakes, best practices, advanced prompting techniques, and role-based prompts to get better output from AI tools. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to use Windsurf with confidence: understand its core AI features, work better with context, build real apps faster, write tests and documentation, and create repeatable workflows that save time every week.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
    • This section is an introduction to the course.
  • Getting Started with Windsurf
    • Step into Windsurf with confidence—set it up, explore key tools, and start coding right away.
  • Getting to Know Windsurf
    • Get a clear picture of what Windsurf is, why it matters, and how it fits into your workflow.
  • Understand Windsurf Chat Modes and Context
    • Master Windsurf Cascade modes to plan, write, and refine code with maximum efficiency.
  • Organize Codebase with Indexing, Rules & Memory
    • Learn how to structure and control your Windsurf workspace using indexing, rules, memory, and automated workflows for a smarter development process.
  • Dive into Agent Skills
    • Explore how Agent Skills extend Windsurf’s capabilities by enabling custom automation and specialized developer actions.
  • PROMPTS: Master Prompt Engineering
    • Learn how to write better prompts—starting from the basics to advanced techniques—to get smarter and more accurate results.

Taught by

Anton Voroniuk and Dmytro Vasyliev

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