Cursor Tutorial for Beginners (AI Code Editor)

[@TechWithTim]

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[@StinusHjensbo]

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

[@jana171]

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 python/flask/html/CSS/JavaScript 😀

[@TechWithTim]

Exactly! Thanks :)

[@NikkiBates1]

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.

[@G-Verse2.0]

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.✨

[@andyeme1109]

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!

[@Tamilgamesandtech]

He is a highly skilled programmer so he is using it, but for beginners it's not preferred

[@hysench131]

​@@Tamilgamesandtech hi, so what is the preferred for beginner?

[@Tamilgamesandtech]

@@hysench131if you are a beginner , don’t try any ai tools

[@gillesashley9314]

@@hysench131 As a beginner, I think you need to understand programming concepts first; that will enable you to know what you want and understand what the AI is generating.

[@csabaczcsomps7655]

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

[@buchangas]

i dont remember when I installed Cursor and now i can see it is amazing

[@abdulmobinkarimi6846]

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

[@anubisai]

Yip and u can build a full stack with it easy too

[@jamespeters1617]

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

[@ditz3nfitness]

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.

[@setnop2307]

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

[@WIMMYY]

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

[@nickygood3342]

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

[@TechWithTim]

Awesome glad you found it helpful!

[@rrrrranch]

Thank you my friend, regards from Argentina

[@anthonysim563]

This is amazing! Thank you for an intro to this!

[@an_R_key]

Thanks for the clear and concise review. Watching this was time well spent!

[@komidawi]

Concise yet informative, thanks for this vid :)

[@drummermike5150]

Great video! Your comments starting at 13:20 are spot on. If you are already a coder this is a game changer for productivity. I’ve been using the pro version for a week and it is amazing. Used to use the free version of Cursor along with ClaudeAPI but using just Cursor Pro will end up being cheaper. I had to have that apply button along with Composer.

[@CarlitoProductions]

The code from image feature is very cool. That would be great for building components and widgets needed for sites. Coworkers been mentioning this a lot and I havent gotten the chance to check it out, but will definitely do.

[@ydoucare55]

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)

[@tekskilldev8310]

As you said Tim it is not so much helpful for the beginners. To reap all the powers, one needs to understand react and be able to ask pertinent questions(prompt). However, after watching you I created a tasklist app with react typescript and it turned out really good with my occasional interventions. It is a CRUD with clear code. Thanks for the video.

[@TheTechFai]

Best video I’ve seen for beginners on cursory, by far. I am a beginner and have hit those obstacles when i I get stuck and just can’t go further. Would Replit or V0 be a viable alternative? Where does the beginner go from here? Because all of this is still not quite accessible to a beginner. (Who doesn’t want to take coding courses..!)

[@jeffbarnhart6441]

great explaination

[@1duducm]

Thank you, dude.

[@ExitStrategyNYC]

at 4:05 timestamp you say "let me zoom out" and your entire screen suddenly changes...what did you do and how do we do the same?

[@rincondepython]

What model does Cursor use for generate code? Gpt or something similar? It's free or there's limited? Great video!

[@Fafnir149]

Its have openai model and claude model, its free but limited on 50/month but $20/month its unlimited i thinks it the best price for make the app from scratch

[@gonzalodiazamor5494]

Thanks for the course! I've a problem with autocomplete, I am not able to switch on this feature

[@kingofartsofficial4431]

It's great Tim Bro

[@haidersyed6554]

Can you please do a tutorial on v0 and replit ?

[@Go.flexrcords]

Wherr does the written code file goes ?

[@ShakiizWrOficial]

Does it work with C#?

[@useronetwothree-z6f]

yes

[@johnsilvester4367]

Is Cursor useful for anything other than generating web pages. every tutorial I have seen winds up making some kind of web app. I am looking to create programmes that take data from multiple sources and manipulating that data to derive useful infomation. I am talking about tabulated data from various API endpoints, or should I stick to speadsheets.

[@jana171]

I use a lot of API endpoints, and one thing cursor can do is take the API documentation directly from API vendors homepage, and implement it in your code, say if you want a local python program with pydantic basemodels, numpy numerical operations or pandas for some data manipulation... Cursor will sort out alot of that for you. Basically, if you can do it in vscode, you also can in cursor. Hope this helped.

[@Damian-lu8sx]

I feel like Tim is that guy the companies look for. Fresh out of college with 20 years of experience under his belt 😂 seriously though, your knowledge is impressive as hell I just wanted to say

[@TechWithTim]

Appreciate it haha

[@nachoeigu]

How safe is in terms of data leaks?

[@xarakus]

how is this different from lets say co-pilot on vs studio?

[@snifyy]

@TechWithTim what's your vscode (cursor) theme?

[@wadonderacollins9726]

what do you use or did for it to generate the autocomplete codes on cursor?

[@cuszco]

The composer looks really interesting, but otherwise it looks very similar to just using Copilot in VSCode. Or am I missing something? Edit: I was missing the image to code thingy. Pretty cool, but I doubt I get much use out of that myself. Thanks for this overview. I will be keeping an eye on Cursor, but for now I don't see a reason for me to switch yet.

[@jamespeters1617]

Thanks tim

[@JuanGallardo]

Mac users looking for the compose feature: Cursor > Settings... > Cursor Settings > Features [tab], scroll down to Composer section

[@mehmetarifartan5633]

Are you using the pro version?

[@Storykid596]

do we have to buy the pro version?

[@BaeristaVR]

Oh my 😱

[@thowheedh]

for a fulltime developer, 20 USD is very worthy investment on Cursor IDE

[@sayantaniguha8519]

VS code can also generate AI code like that?

[@shipfastnow]

Hey great video. Thank you for this. I have been using ChatGPT and Claude to generate codes for me. I usually prompt them to give me 1 single file with all HTML/JS/CSS and I only have to copy paste it. Since I’m new to coding, is the cursor AI also able to do so ?

[@lancemarchetti8673]

Yes it will, if you instruct it to do so. Example: "In the html structure please include the full js and css code. I prefer to not deal with these files separately. Please use this rule with all my html coding projects going forward."

[@shipfastnow]

@@lancemarchetti8673 thank you for responding. I tried and it made. I start from V0 first now and then go to cursor

[@devin_leary]

Is there a way you can give it your figma's file?

[@akshayk467]

Is it possible to save those composer chats? I've tried but havent found anything. maybe save it in a markdown files or something similar. I see sometimes the history gets deleted when i close and open the cursor app on my mac.

[@DhruvaDhruva-g6u]

i'm using this cursor i like all the features but i want to turn off the code predictions because it predicts the code before i write so i want to turn it off but i can't i tried many ways, anyone help me to turn it only that feature

[@daron8982]

so what can you do with these codes?

[@lampucoklat]

Can Cursor AI be used to create CodeIgniter-based applications?

[@godzilla8540]

Hello any advice when ai giving the fix and still the same error, then it will just loop over and over again with the same fixes and error.

[@xgamerunknown6414]

I have been working with angelscript for amnesia the dark descent for quite a while. Is c++ similar to that?

[@forbidden_lion]

I ditched Cursor for Continue Dev + Supermaven + Cline. Much better and you have the full control. Cursor forked VS Code and returned nothing in return. Fork Cursor.

[@eden14045]

Im only familiar & use Cline. if u dont mind why use those 3, what's the +/-?

[@forbidden_lion]

@@eden14045 Continue Dev for chat, Supermaven for auto complete and Cline for Composer thing although I don't use cline at all.

[@akmalshukri8667]

is it free to do like this ? or this one is paid version of cursor ai ?

[@JuanGallardo]

How long did it take for the composer to finish? i tried building a vuejs app and it took over 5 minutes. So I then asked it to generate a simple html page, it finished in a few seconds but i never saw the option to accept the changes. And it is not clear where this saves to.

[@gayanchaminda2207]

pl help my cursor interpriters play < (Button) isn't respond i can run terminal with command but corner play button not working when i click it?

[@alexanderbock7460]

Maybe That works on Easy Peasy Python of Javaskript. I try to use cursor with c++ and it’s more effective to write the code by hand then to correct the mistakes by AI. same thing that 25 years ago GUIs don’t solve the problems. It’s way more faster to navigate in the code with a simple editor like VI then to rely on that obstacles in this GUI.

[@nanayaw7159]

Great

[@cinematicRecapss]

how is this not avaliable for linux

[@netify6582]

it is

[@dirtydevotee]

Can anyone tell me if the "free" version of Cursor is 2,000 completions per month or total for all time. Also, what's a "completion"?

[@SebastiandAnconia]

how do you install this on linux?

[@gecsus]

Would have been nice if you had added a link for the download site. There are far too many and some could be fake or nefarious.

[@kwanyise7807]

Hey Tim, can I please design a python project and show us how u get all the functions in the program 🙏

[@cuszco]

I think he made that video about 9346 times already. Browse his channel ;)

[@jamespeters1617]

Dude yes these things only work if you know your terms

[@misbahsaleem3332]

1st like 1st comment 1st view 😊😊😊

[@Slyndc]

Congrats

[@misbahsaleem3332]

@@Slyndc thanks 👍🏻

[@jibrilrichter2852]

So basically we are f’ed as software engineers? 😂

[@joMojojojo]

Yes and also a small no. This also means that a lot of no coders will need to consult you to upgrade or fix the stuff they made.

[@Siniy422]

@@joMojojojo software instantly becomes legacy, and we turn into code archaeologists, legacy whisperers, tech historians, legacy wranglers, bug archaeologists, patch masters, and refactor ninjas.

[@ExitStrategyNYC]

There's no file > preferences (I'm on Version: 0.42.4)

[@YogeshJadhav-f2n]

sir pls make one app like SUNO AI (lyrics, music, & vocals), with free API, or with Model if ready made models not available in free mode then (How to train our own model for this) Thanks

[@misbahsaleem3332]

Hello❤❤😊

[@azharalibhutto1209]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@shahramshaygani2407]

9:52 please? 😂

[@SnowballOfficials]

PearAI is struggling review this too

[@jan-dawa]

how do they compare ?

[@JeremyFisher]

So this is Github Copilot and ChatGPT in one

[@m12652]

Does it require an internet connection..?

[@Nik-rx9rj]

Well of course it does. Otherwise you’d have to host your own AI model

[@m12652]

@ whats wrong with hosting your own? I have several i experimented with over the last year running locally. You can get them working in a fraction of the time it takes to download them and their so straight forward to set up its scary...

[@Chikowski101]

vscode is free cursor has an expensive monthly plan

[@Naruto-m1z]

What is the best code editor for python??👇👇

[@sohamjain8599]

Fuck I am scared after seeing this Like it's really awesome for a developer to use this But after realising that AI has became so poweful I am literally scared What will happen in the next 10 years?

[@jigsaw2253]

It is better to not use AI helpers in coding as beginners because we won’t learn much, it is better to avoid such tools

[@QBitWorld]

True

[@vpakarinen]

It's beginners tutorial for Cursor, not for coding.

[@jigsaw2253]

@@vpakarinen I know, I am giving advice for beginners

[@QBitWorld]

@@vpakarinen True

[@RDLit-lh4rv]

can use it to learn as well. Explaining code, different / better ways to write code etc.

[@dannyng370]

This AI technology is insane. All programmers are losing their jobs.

[@Nik-rx9rj]

I used it and came to the same conclusion. I doubt it’ll be within in a year, but seeing what this type of AI model can do is a sure sign to me that programmers are toast.

[@dannyng370]

@ for sure. The sad thing is only programmers know about this change coming. Most people don’t realize the impact of Ai is going to make to their jobs.

[@abdulmobinkarimi6846]

scary

[@pakalupapito3202]

Kids learn fundamentals please, before you use LLM to do your job

[@UN-YOSHI-_-]

Ah yes, another AI product.

[@khzzzzzzzz]

It is just inevitable...

[@borntodoit8744]

Expect many AI products...it's 21stC

[@jan-dawa]

all of these videos about Cursor on youtube look marketing ads

[@ArchMaximus99]

The worst code editor 😂😂

[@Aliaseita]

Great