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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
The Cascade Conversational Interface
- Distinguishing Cascade from traditional chat panels found in other IDEs
- Maintaining conversational context across various feature requests
- Toggling between explain, plan, and act modes within Cascade
- Applying real-world conversation patterns for bug resolution and feature development
Predictive Edits and Multi-File Awareness
- Understanding the nature of predictive edits and their automatic triggers
- Accepting, rejecting, and adjusting edit suggestions across multiple files
- Automatically tracking dependencies between modified files
- Reverting cascading changes when predictions are inaccurate
Terminal Integration Inside the Editor
- Opening and managing integrated terminal sessions
- How Cascade monitors terminal output to optimize subsequent steps
- Executing tests, builds, and deployments without exiting Windsurf
- Managing interactive CLI prompts during automated workflows
Windsurf Indexing and Context Management
- How Windsurf constructs and sustains a real-time project index
- Differences in indexing behavior between monorepos and single repositories
- Excluding generated artifacts and build directories to enhance indexing speed
- Rebuilding the index following significant structural modifications
Conversational Feature Building
- Articulating features in plain language to observe Cascade's planning process
- Reviewing the generated file list prior to accepting changes
- Immediate execution of generated code and feeding errors back to Cascade
- Iterative refinement through conversational follow-up prompts
Custom Rules and Technology-Specific Prompting
- Creating project-specific rules for internal frameworks
- Enforcing naming conventions via Windsurf rule files
- Customizing indexing for DSLs and non-standard file formats
- Distributing rule sets among development teams
Debugging with Cascade Assistance
- Inputting stack traces into Cascade for root-cause analysis
- Requesting Cascade to compare functioning and faulty versions
- Executing regression tests within Cascade's terminal monitoring tool
- Detecting hallucinated imports or missing dependencies post-edit
Version Control and Review Integration
- Generating commit messages from conversational change summaries
- Drafting pull request descriptions via Cascade chat
- Addressing reviewer comments with targeted file modifications
- Maintaining a clean commit history during conversational development
Performance and Enterprise Deployment
- Managing large workspace indexing under memory constraints
- Optimizing startup times for repositories with extensive file counts
- Understanding Windsurf's data handling protocols and training opt-outs
- Configuring enterprise proxies and VPNs for regulated environments
Transitioning from Other Editors
- Importing keybindings and settings from VS Code or JetBrains
- Exporting Windsurf extensions back into standard VS Code
- Strategies for team migration and pilot program structures
Requirements
- Practical experience with IDEs such as VS Code or JetBrains
- Familiarity with Git and agile development processes
- Basic understanding of LLM-based chat interfaces
Target Audience
- Developers considering Windsurf as their primary development environment
- Product teams seeking conversational AI capabilities natively integrated into their editor
- Freelancers aiming to minimize context switching through terminal-in-IDE workflows
Testimonials (1)
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