Cursor Tutorial for Beginners (AI Code Editor)

Welcome to the beginners tutorial for Cursor, and AI powered code editor that promises to make your development easier. This quick tutorial will cover everything that I've learned from using this program and some of the best practices that you can apply, especially if you're just starting your programming journey and haven't used many AI tools before. Be sure to watch until the very end so you'll know exactly how this AI code editor work and how to get the best results of it.

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⏳ Timestamps ⏳
00:00 | Overview
00:30 | Setup
01:05 | Make a Plan
02:07 | Composer
05:05 | Chat Window
07:35 | Code Search
08:28 | In-line Editing
11:30 | Image to Code

Hashtags
#cursor #tutorial #beginner

[jana]

I dived back into programming web two years ago, from a 20 year pause, and was hit with a brick wall from all the new techniques that one has to master today, to get the CSS right, make the website secure, learning a new language, how to host it in the cloud and all this. BUT the one thing i struggle with the most has been my productivity. So i switched to the paid version of Cursor a month back, and BOY, this indeed has been a great help on my productivity. But I must agree, Cursor wont do you much good if you can't code and troubleshoot to begin with. This is why THIS channel is here though... learn how to code here, THEN install Cursor... that's what I did, So Tim, THANK YOU for all the good tutorials on 😀

[StinusHjensbo]

3rd video I see trying to understand cursor as a beginner. Yours was the best one. Ty

[lamtranpartners_]

Really liked at the end the honest advice, you'll need to be able to code a bit and know the basics before diving in with no prior knowledge

[NikkiBates]

It’s an average editor, the chat window is useful but you never want to let it get too long without risking lag when starting up cursor. With that being said, I’ve been completely addicted currently working on my third program. Being able to cruise through development while learning is highly satisfying.

[abdulmobinkarimi]

for people like me who hate front-end stuff like html or css it's a great tool (just generate everything using this)

[jimmythepagina]

amazing! i've been learning code for the past 45 days (i'm on a 100 days challenge), through the odin project full stack dev course. it's been great to learn well the fundamentals but i can see how a tool like this skyrockets productivity. i think my approach will be continuing without it for a while and then starting using when i start getting my hands dirty with real life projects. i think the chance to eli5 code for you is incredible, too good to be true for someone with not a lot of experience that still wants to build stuff. i'm super impressed, what a time to be a coder!!

[bjay]

this is the right way. jush help you create stuff faster without taking controll

[ydoucare]

One thing to keep in mind is that it will be really good at whatever languages or frameworks are most popular due to having more training data to work with. Also, you can add documents as context, so for example, if you have an API reference document for an API you're working with, you can add the URL to be indexed for additional context in the chat (type @docs)

[core-eminance]

This material is actual gold, definately will try this out, thank you for always delivering quality tutorials they really have helped alot of us out.✨

[csabaczcsomps]

The chat window and apply buton is magic. I love this . And composer is true power. Thx for show these.

[nickygood]

This is cool, esp. as a beginner. Thank you. I hear you, its tough when you get stuck, so am taking your software dev beginner course. 😃

[jamespeters]

Asking the exact right question is crucial to success in large backends that are cross communicating. Also transferring from flask to Django can help because the ai will know what page your working on have a better understanding on how to run the view. Demo is almost ready. Have it working, but issues with the server stuff. Learning fast thanks to this channel

[andyeme]

It's good to see you (a highly skilled programmer) encouraging people to use cursor. I've seen a lot of programmers demonizing it because they believe it will make you worse at programming. While this can be true in some cases I would say the benefits far outweigh the cons.

Thanks for another good video Tim!

[ditznfitness]

The frontend capabilities seems to be the best pro of using Cursor! Saves so much time coding Tailwindcss and such!

[KattKingston]

That's insanely cool. I started working in a new codebase at a job and that search feature is so insanely helpful! I love this.

[scififan]

These tools will make beginners know even less about coding than they already do. Great 👍

[Astral]

You missed the most important part - how to keep the Cursor aware of the full context at all times, by using external notes and cursorrules

[WIMMYY]

The only video I needed to bring my ideas to life. Thanks a ton buddy!

[setnop]

good work, saw some of tutorials out there, clearly that yours is the best one for me!

[kamaleshpramanik]

Those are awesome features .. Thank you very much for the video.