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Course Outline
The Cascade Conversational Interface
- Distinguishing Cascade from traditional chat panels in other IDEs.
- Maintaining conversational context across multiple feature requests.
- Switching between explain, plan, and act modes within Cascade.
- Real-world conversation patterns for bug fixing and feature development.
Predictive Edits and Multi-File Awareness
- Understanding predictive edits and when they are automatically triggered.
- Accepting, rejecting, and refining edit suggestions across multiple files.
- Automatically tracking dependencies between edited files.
- Reverting cascading changes when predictions do not align with expectations.
Terminal Integration Inside the Editor
- Opening and managing integrated terminal sessions.
- How Cascade monitors terminal output to refine subsequent steps.
- Running tests, builds, and deployments without leaving Windsurf.
- Handling 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 for monorepos versus single repositories.
- Excluding generated artifacts and build directories to accelerate indexing.
- Rebuilding the index following major structural changes.
Conversational Feature Building
- Describing a feature in plain language and observing Cascade's planning phase.
- Reviewing the generated file list before accepting proposed changes.
- Executing generated code immediately and providing error feedback to Cascade.
- Iterative refinement through conversational follow-up prompts.
Custom Rules and Technology-Specific Prompting
- Writing project-specific rules for internal frameworks.
- Enforcing naming conventions via 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.
- Asking Cascade to compare working and broken code versions.
- Running regression tests within Cascade's terminal monitoring.
- 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 limitations.
- Optimizing startup time for repositories containing many 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 IDEs.
- Exporting Windsurf extensions back into standard VS Code environments.
- Team migration strategies and pilot program structures.
Requirements
- Experience using an IDE such as VS Code or JetBrains products.
- Familiarity with Git version control and agile development processes.
- Basic experience interacting with LLM-based chat interfaces.
Target Audience
- Developers evaluating Windsurf as their primary development environment.
- Product teams seeking to integrate conversational AI natively into their editor.
- Freelancers aiming to minimize context switching through terminal-in-IDE workflows.
14 Hours
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