Why This Vibe Coding Course?

Because this course is built from the ground-up to transform you into a professional, AI-first Developer.

You'll gain hands-on mastery of a wide range of cutting-edge tools, including models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, in-editor navigators like GitHub Copilot, and fully integrated AI workshops like Cursor.

Beyond the tools, you'll learn advanced professional techniques like using AI Agent Mode for complex tasks and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect your AI to live, real-world data.

But the most important part is that you won't be learning "vibe coding" in the traditional sense...

You won't just learn how to get AI to write code; you'll master the right mindset and workflow for directing these powerful partners to build professional projects, giving you a significant advantage in any modern tech career.

This course flips the traditional coding model on its head. Instead of writing line after line, you’ll act as a Creative Director, guiding advanced AI tools to bring your ideas to life. You’ll learn how to prompt effectively, plan like a pro, and use modern tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Gemini to build everything from fun games to full-stack applications.

Each project is designed to level-up your skills and create real portfolio projects that you can be proud of. By the end, you’ll even have a professional portfolio site showcasing your work and the know-how to speak about it confidently in any job interview.

Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to upskill fast, this course equips you to build smarter - and get hired.

Is Vibe Coding Good or Bad?

Vibe coding sometimes has a negative connotation. And it can be well-deserved.

It can absolutely go horribly wrong when it’s done casually or carelessly.

That's the case for many powerful tools - their effectiveness depends on the skill of their operator.

Imagine a novice trying to use the Hubble Telescope...even though they're using an incredibly powerful tool, it probably won't go well!

If you’re just pasting random prompts into an AI and accepting whatever code comes out, you can end up with bloated, fragile projects that you don’t really understand. Bugs get buried under layers of auto-generated logic, performance suffers, and small changes become scary because you’re never quite sure what the AI did under the hood. In the worst case, you get a portfolio full of code that looks impressive on the surface but falls apart under real-world use or a technical interview.

But in the hands of someone who understands both how code works and how AI thinks, Vibe Coding becomes something completely different...

It turns into a powerful collaboration. You become the Creative Director. You're the one setting the architecture, defining constraints, reviewing decisions, and guiding the AI toward clean, maintainable solutions. You know when to trust its suggestions and when to override them. You can ask it for multiple options, refactor its output, and push it toward better patterns. When practiced this way, Vibe Coding isn’t a shortcut around skill - it’s a multiplier for it, letting a knowledgeable developer ship higher-quality projects faster, explore more ideas, and focus on the creative and conceptual parts of building software.

What Does This Vibe Coding Course Cover?

This course dives deep into the full spectrum of tools you can use to vibe code, from different models to different integrated development environments (IDEs). But perhaps more importantly it teaches you the mindset needed to vibe code well.

Here's an overview of what this course covers specifically:

1. The Foundation: Mindset & Workflow This initial section lays the essential groundwork for the entire course. You'll learn the core philosophy of Vibe Coding, shifting your role from a "code writer" to a "Creative Director." We explore the history of AI in development, the common quirks of modern AI tools, and establish the professional workflow of planning, prompting, and refining that you'll use to build every project.

2. The AI Toolkit: Evaluating Your Co-Pilots Before you can direct a team, you need to know their strengths. In this section, you'll get hands-on with the major AI "Architects" like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. We'll put them through a standardized "Gauntlet" project and score their performance on a data-driven scorecard, teaching you the crucial skill of how to evaluate and choose the best AI tool for any job.

3. The Workshop: Professional Environment Setup This is the practical setup module where we build your professional developer workshop. You'll get a complete, step-by-step guide to installing and configuring all the essential tools on your local machine, including the terminal, Node.js/npm, Git/GitHub, and the industry-standard code editor, Visual Studio Code, along with its key extensions.

4. The Project Labs: Building Your First Components Here, we move from theory to practice. You'll start building your first portfolio pieces with a series of fun, self-contained projects like a Reaction Game and a Compliment Generator. These labs are designed to build your confidence and give you hands-on experience using different AI tools to apply the core Vibe Coding loop.

5. Mastering In-Editor AI: Copilot, Cursor & Zed This section is a deep dive into the powerful "Navigator" and "Workshop" categories of AI assistants. You'll learn to master the workflows of in-editor tools like GitHub Copilot, the AI-native editor Cursor, and its high-performance alternative, Zed. We'll run them through the Gauntlet project to see their unique strengths for high-speed, context-aware development.

6. Advanced Projects: The Portfolio Gauntlet This is the heart of the course, where you'll build the most substantial projects for your portfolio. You'll tackle a series of challenging, multi-part applications, including a "Scoundrel" card game, a full-stack News Reader with a proxy server, an interactive Podcast Player, and a Recipe App that works offline as a Progressive Web App (PWA).

7. Advanced Techniques: MCP & Real-World Data In this advanced section, you'll learn how to transform your AI from a simple code generator into a true agent. We'll cover the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the industry standard that allows your AI to connect to live, real-world tools and data. You'll build projects using the official MCP servers from Vercel and GitHub to create dynamic, data-driven applications.

8. The Power User's Path: Open-Source AI Models For those who want ultimate control and privacy, this section explores the exciting world of running open-source AI models locally on your own machine. You'll learn about the open-source ecosystem, the pros and cons of this approach, and how to set up a tool like Ollama to power your AI workflow privately and offline.

9. The Capstone: Building Your Professional Portfolio This is the grand finale of your building journey. You will take all the skills and projects you've developed and assemble them into a stunning, professionally designed personal portfolio website. We'll use a modern framework like Next.js and an AI-native editor like Cursor to craft a world-class showcase for your work.

10. Your Career as an AI-Augmented Developer The final section prepares you for your career. You'll learn how to effectively articulate your advanced AI-augmented development skills on your resume and in job interviews. We'll provide project suggestions and a roadmap for your continued learning, ensuring you're ready to thrive as a professional, AI-Augmented Developer.

You're Getting More Than Just a Course

Yes, this course will teach you how to properly vibe code and become an AI-Augmented Developer...but by joining ZTM you're getting more than just a course.

Graduates of Zero To Mastery are now working at Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Uber, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies (seriously, Google it. Check Reddit. Look on Youtube).

They are also working as top freelancers getting paid while working remotely around the world.

This can be you.

But by enrolling today, you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom to learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Active. Thriving. Supportive. Helpful. Friendly. Motivating. Essential.

These are just a few of the words students use to describe the ZTM Discord which is also one of the biggest and most active developer communities on Discord.

Most importantly, you'll be learning from industry experts that have actual real-world experience working with AI and building large-scale web apps for companies around the world.

What's the bottom line?

This Vibe Coding Bootcamp will take you from beginner to an experienced AI-Augmented Developer.

This course is not about making you just code along without understanding the principles so that when you are done with the course you don’t know what to do other than watch another tutorial... No!

This course will push you and challenge you to go from an absolute beginner to someone that is able to build your own real-world projects that WOW users and prospective employers 💪.