// Vibecoding Courses
Practical Vibecoding
What vibecoding is, how to install Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, the five competencies of working with an agent, and five side projects to build with it.
- Modules
- 7
- Articles
- 16
- Labs
- 31
- Quizzes
- 2
- Projects
- 0
- Capstone
- Rubric-scored
What you'll be able to do
- Explain what vibecoding is and where it came from
- Install Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and start a session
- Define done with checkable acceptance criteria, and plan before building
- Write prompts and project instructions that leave nothing to guess
- Verify output with evidence, and choose how much autonomy and which model to give
- Ship five side projects you can show
Who it's for
- • Working engineers adopting AI coding tools on a real codebase
- • Career services teams helping students ship portfolio projects with AI tools
- • Founders and entrepreneurs building products without a full engineering bench
- • Tech leads standardizing practice across a team or cohort
Prerequisites
- • Comfortable in a terminal and with git
- • A real project you can practice against (coursework, portfolio, startup, or day job)
- • Access to at least one of Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor (the course covers all three; labs work with any one)
Curriculum
7 modules
Module 1 · What Vibecoding Is
What it means to build software by directing an AI agent, and how we got here, from autocomplete to agents that run your code.
After this module you can
- • Explain vibecoding in one sentence, and what it is not
- • Describe the short history from code completion to coding agents
Module 2 · Install Claude Code
Install Claude Code on your own computer and check that it works. Then run a first session in the browser: ask it something, review its change, and keep it or undo it.
After this module you can
- • Install Claude Code on macOS, Windows or Linux, check it works, and start it in a project
- • Run a first session: ask, review the change, then keep it or undo it
Install and first session
Module 3 · Install Codex
Install the Codex CLI on your own computer and check that it works. Then run a first session in the browser: see what it may do without asking, review its change, and keep it or undo it.
After this module you can
- • Install the Codex CLI on macOS, Windows or Linux, check it works, and start it in a project
- • Run a first session: check its sandbox mode, review the change, then keep it or undo it
Install and first session
Module 4 · Install Cursor
Install the Cursor editor on your own computer, sign in, and send its agent a first request. Then write the project rule and AGENTS.md files Cursor reads.
After this module you can
- • Install Cursor on macOS, Windows or Linux, sign in, and run its agent on a project
- • Write a Cursor project rule with its header block, and an AGENTS.md
Install and project rules
Module 5 · Competencies: Solve, Plan, Prompt
The first three of the five competencies: deciding what done looks like, breaking the work down, and saying it so the agent cannot misread it.
After this module you can
- • Define a result with checkable acceptance criteria before asking for it
- • Break a large change into steps you can supervise one at a time
- • Write prompts and project instructions that leave the agent nothing to guess
Module 6 · Competencies: Verify, Delegate
The last two competencies: checking what the agent made with evidence, and deciding how much it may do without asking.
After this module you can
- • Check agent output with runtime evidence instead of re-prompting and hoping
- • Choose how much authority to give an agent, and which model, for each task
Module 7 · Five Side Projects
Build five small apps from a written brief with any agent, checking each against its acceptance criteria. Each one is a portfolio piece.
After this module you can
- • Ship a self-contained app from a written specification
- • Verify acceptance criteria without trusting the model
- • Leave with five things a recruiter or customer can open
Bringing this to your org?
Every lab ends in a deliverable a reviewer can check, and the capstone is scored against a published rubric. Talk to us about seats for an engineering team, a career center cohort, or a founder program.
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