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Course Outline
The Cascade Conversational Interface
- Understanding how Cascade differs from traditional chat panels in other IDEs.
- Maintaining conversational context across multiple feature requests.
- Switching 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 what predictive edits are and their automatic triggers.
- Accepting, rejecting, and fine-tuning edit suggestions across various 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 refine 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 maintains a real-time project index.
- Differences in indexing behavior between monorepos and single repositories.
- Excluding generated artifacts and build directories to accelerate indexing speed.
- Rebuilding the index following significant structural changes.
Conversational Feature Building
- Describing a feature in plain language and observing Cascade’s planning process.
- Reviewing the generated file list before accepting changes.
- Running generated code immediately and feeding error feedback to Cascade.
- Iterative refinement using conversational follow-up prompts.
Custom Rules and Technology-Specific Prompting
- Creating project-specific rules for internal frameworks.
- Enforcing naming conventions through Windsurf rule files.
- Customizing indexing for Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and non-standard file formats.
- Sharing rule sets across a development team.
Debugging with Cascade Assistance
- Pasting stack traces into Cascade for root-cause analysis.
- Requesting Cascade to compare working and broken code versions.
- Running regression tests within Cascade's terminal watcher.
- Identifying hallucinated imports or missing dependencies after edits.
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 edits.
- Maintaining a clean commit history during conversational development.
Performance and Enterprise Deployment
- Managing large workspace indexing within memory limits.
- Optimizing startup time for repositories with numerous files.
- Understanding Windsurf's data handling policies and training opt-out options.
- 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 structuring pilot programs.
Requirements
- Experience using an IDE such as VS Code or JetBrains
- Familiarity with Git and agile development processes
- Basic experience with chat interfaces powered by Large Language Models (LLMs)
Audience
- Developers considering Windsurf as their main development environment
- Product teams seeking native conversational AI capabilities within their editor
- Freelancers aiming to minimize context switching through integrated terminal workflows
14 Hours
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