Getting Started with Vibe Coding: Build Your First AI App

Vibe Coding is a new, creative way to build with AI—fast, idea-driven, and surprisingly accessible. If you’re wondering how to actually start building with modern AI tools, this beginner-friendly session is for you.

We’ll walk through the basic tools you need and demonstrate how to build a simple AI-powered app from scratch.

Along the way, you’ll get an introduction to Context Engineering—the emerging practice of shaping AI development by providing the right inputs, instructions, and flows.

### 🔧 Tools We’ll Explore

• VS Code – our primary workspace
• Windsurf & Cursor – AI-native code editors designed for fast prototyping
• Claude Code CLI & Gemini CLI – AI-powered command line tools for delegating coding and development tasks to large language models directly from their terminal.

### 🧭 What We’ll Cover

• What is Vibe Coding? A new mindset for building with AI
• Installing and using essential tools
• Exploring different development environments: editors and command-line interfaces
• A gentle intro to Context Engineering: How prompts, instructions, and setup affect model output
• Building a simple AI using Vibe Coding