Windsurf essentials

Software Development with Windsurf

Francesca Donadoni

AI Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

Windsurf: an intelligent coding assistant

• Understands codebase through advanced context analysis

• Lets us write prompts in natural language

• Helps build, refactor, and debug faster

Course goals

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• 🖥 Context-aware AI workspace

• 💬 Chat and Write modes to ask questions or generate code

• 🤖 Automate tasks with Cascade

  • Querying
  • Debugging

• 🚀 Build, secure, and deploy apps

A standalone agentic IDE

• Built from the ground up to help developers work smarter with AI

Get Started!

Step 1: Choose setup flow

Step 2: Choose a theme

Step 3: Sign in or create your account

Windsurf interface

Windsurf interface

Windsurf interface

Windsurf interface

Cascade modes

Cascade chat mode

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A conversational interface for exploring your code, debugging, or asking for implementation help.

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For example:

How can I add bottom tabs to my React Native app?

Cascade write mode

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Context-aware code completions that integrate directly into the editor to generate or improve code.

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For example:

Generate an HTML file with boilerplate

Let's practice!

Software Development with Windsurf