Cursor Workshop UTAMU
Build an App in an Afternoon: A Hands-On Workshop on AI-Powered Development with Cursor
Are you ready to stop writing boilerplate code and start shipping features?
Join us for an intensive, hands-on workshop designed to fundamentally change the way you build software. Taking inspiration from the frontier of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, this session dives deep into Cursor, the revolutionary AI-first code editor, and shows you exactly how to leverage its power to build a fully functional application from scratch.
This is more than a demo—it’s a guided build session where you’ll put theory into immediate practice.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this workshop, you will be fluent in the key features of Cursor and understand how to use them to achieve unprecedented coding velocity:
⚡️ Agent Mode & Full App Generation: Learn how to prompt Cursor’s Agent to handle complex, multi-file tasks and orchestrate the development of a complete feature or application framework.
💬 Chat-Driven Development (Cmd+K): Master the integrated chat interface for instant code generation, targeted rewrites, and refactoring existing code across multiple lines with a single natural language instruction.
🧠 Codebase Understanding: Explore how Cursor indexes your project to become a true collaborator, allowing you to ask natural language questions about your codebase structure and dependencies.
🚀 Smart Rewrites and Autocomplete: Experience 10x faster coding with Cursor's predictive, multi-line autocomplete and automatic error fixing.
🌐 Real-Time Context: Utilize the
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The Project
You will leave the workshop with a tangible, fully functional app—built largely by directing the AI—and the knowledge to apply these next-generation development techniques to your own projects immediately.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is ideal for developers and students of all experience levels who are eager to embrace AI tools to accelerate their workflow and unlock peak engineering productivity. Bring your laptop and be prepared to code!