Cursor 2.0 Tutorial for Beginners (Full Course)
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Intro
Welcome to the complete Cursor guide with Kehan Zhang. He is the best developer I've ever met and he's used Cursor every single day since it came out. In this video, he's going to give us the most comprehensive course on how to use Cursor on the entire internet. And by the end of this course, you'll be able to confidently use Cursor to vibe code landing pages, desktop apps, or anything you can imagine. If you've been looking for a comprehensive, easy to follow, well-organized, and practical course that takes you from zero to hero, this is the right Cursor course for you. You don't need any prior knowledge of programming. All you need is a computer. If you already have a foundation, the whole video is timestamped, so you can switch to any chapter that you want. And in the second half of the video, we're actually going to be covering the most advanced features inside Cursor. We are truly covering everything. And so if you're new here, make sure to subscribe as I upload new videos all the time about vibe coding and building with AI. This is going to be a very long video. Let's dive in.
Rest of video
- Kehan defines Cursor as an IDE and explains basic vocabulary for non-coders: files, folders, front end, back end, directories, and components.
- They compare Cursor to friendlier vibe coding tools like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit so viewers understand why Cursor is more flexible but less beginner-looking.
- The first build is a meme generator, used to teach prompting, rules, design instructions, direct canvas edits, and iterative bug fixing.
- They show how model behavior changes depending on prompt specificity, screenshots, project context, and Cursor rules.
- The app is expanded into a fuller product with authentication, a database, saved memes, voting, and user-specific state.
- Kehan explains full-stack concepts while Cursor writes and refactors thousands of lines of code, then they test what worked and what broke.
- The course covers terminal concepts, CLI/TUI language, deployment, hosting with Vercel, public URLs, domains, and environment variables.
- The final section compares Cursor with other vibe coding tools, covering tradeoffs around control, ease of use, lock-in, cloud ownership, and upgrade paths.
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