Workshop Resources 📚

Everything you need for each session — setup guides, links, cheat sheets, and reference materials.

01 · Getting started
⬛ Terminal Setup ▾

Your terminal is the gateway to powerful AI tools. Here's how to get started on each platform.

macOS

Your Mac already has a terminal! Open Terminal.app from Applications → Utilities, or press Cmd + Space and type "Terminal".

# Check your terminal is working
$ echo "Hello, AI world!"

Windows

Install Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store, or use PowerShell (pre-installed). For a Unix-like experience, install WSL2.

# Install WSL2 (run in PowerShell as Administrator)
> wsl --install

Essential Terminal Commands

$ pwd # Where am I?
$ ls # What's in this folder?
$ cd Desktop # Go to Desktop folder
$ cd .. # Go up one folder
$ mkdir my-project # Make a new folder
$ clear # Clear the screen
🔧 Essential Software to Install ▾
02 · AI services guide
🌏 AI Service Comparison ▾
Service Best For Free Tier Paid
ChatGPT General chat, writing ✓ Limited $20 USD/mo
Claude Coding, analysis, long docs ✓ Limited $20 USD/mo
Gemini Multimodal, Google integration ✓ Generous $20 USD/mo
DeepSeek Coding, reasoning (cheap!) ✓ Generous Pay-as-you-go
Qwen Coding, multilingual ✓ Generous Pay-as-you-go
OpenRouter One API, many models ✓ Some free Pay-as-you-go
Codex (OpenAI) Code generation, agentic ✓ With ChatGPT $200 USD/mo

Getting API Keys

03 · IDE setup guides
🧬 Antigravity ▾

Antigravity is Google's agentic AI IDE, built on VS Code. It runs AI agents directly in your editor with full file system access.

# Download from the official site
# antigravity.google

# Or install the VS Code extension
# Search "Gemini Code Assist" in the VS Code marketplace

Key Features

  • Full agentic coding — AI reads, writes, and runs code
  • Built-in terminal integration — run commands from AI-generated steps
  • MCP server support for tool connections (browser, APIs, databases)
  • Free tier available with Gemini account
🖥️ Cursor ▾

Cursor is an AI-native code editor (fork of VS Code) with integrated AI chat, inline editing, and agentic capabilities.

Getting Started

# After installing Cursor:
# 1. Open any folder
# 2. Press Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Win) to ask AI to edit code
# 3. Press Cmd+L to open the AI chat panel
# 4. Use Composer (Cmd+I) for multi-file AI edits
🔵 VS Code + Extensions ▾

Already use VS Code? Add AI superpowers with extensions.

Recommended Extensions

04 · Cheat sheets
💬 Prompting Patterns That Work ▾

The Basics

  • 🎯 Be specific — "Build a landing page" → "Build a responsive landing page for a surf school with a hero image, pricing cards, and a booking form"
  • 📋 Give context — Tell the AI who you are, what you're building, what tech you're using
  • 🔄 Iterate — AI rarely gets it perfect first try. Say "make the header bigger" or "add a dark mode"
  • 📎 Give examples — "Make the style similar to stripe.com" or "Use a layout like this: [paste]"

Power Prompts

# Let AI plan first
"Before writing any code, break this task into steps
and tell me your plan."

# Fix errors in context
"I got this error: [paste error]. The code that
caused it is: [paste code]. Fix it."

# Generate with constraints
"Build a contact form using vanilla HTML/CSS/JS
(no frameworks). Make it accessible and mobile-first."
⌨️ Terminal Quick Reference ▾
# Navigation
$ pwd # Print working directory
$ ls -la # List all files (detailed)
$ cd ~/Documents # Go to Documents
$ cd - # Go back to previous dir

# File operations
$ mkdir my-project # Create a folder
$ touch index.html # Create a file
$ cat file.txt # View file contents
$ cp old.txt new.txt # Copy a file

# Package managers
$ npm init -y # Create a Node.js project
$ npm install # Install dependencies
$ npx serve . # Serve current folder as website

# AI from terminal
$ claude # Start Claude Code (if installed)
$ gemini # Start Gemini CLI (if installed)
05 · Further reading
📖 Official Documentation & Learning ▾