Codecademy
A short interactive introduction to Cursor, the AI code editor built on VS Code, covering AI chat, code generation, smart suggestions and debugging workflows, with a closing quiz. For beginners deciding whether Cursor fits their workflow before investing in longer courses.
Aspiring builders, career switchers and working developers. This is a beginner-level course in Coding with AI, running about Under 1 hour.
Free. The course is free on Codecademy's Basic plan; the certificate of completion requires Plus ($29.99 billed monthly or $14.99/month billed annually) or Pro. Price seen 2026-11-01.
Moves from vibe coding to disciplined agentic coding with Claude Code, covering specs, test-driven development and context engineering, and ends with building a Tic-Tac-Toe game in Node.js. For beginners who learn best with interactive lessons and want a certificate; Codecademy suggests its Learn Prompt Engineering course first.
Shows how agentic coding tools break down complex apps across multiple files, with hands-on work in Windsurf debugging and refactoring JavaScript, updating a large legacy codebase, and building a Wikipedia data analysis app. For developers with basic coding and prompting skills who want to see how an AI IDE agent uses tools and context.
Andrew Ng walks complete non-programmers through describing an app idea in plain language and having AI build a working browser-based web app, then customizing it and reusing the approach on other projects such as a ping pong game. The gentlest on-ramp to vibe coding for anyone who has never written code.