This hands-on course is designed to help attendees develop mastery of the GitHub Copilot AI assistant through a combination of lecture, demonstrations, and hands on labs. Attendees will learn a variety of AI assisted techniques that will greatly reduce code development times while increasing code quality. Skills covered include Copilot installation and setup, auto-completion, comment and documentation generation, generating common code structures, Copilot customization, large scale code generation, test generation and bug repair, refactoring, code review and more. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have a solid understanding of GitHub Copilot and the skills necessary to dramatically improve productivity while managing key AI concerns and shortfall.
Who Should Attend
Developers, DevOps engineers and anyone who writes code
What Attendees Will Learn
The course is designed to provide developers with a comprehensive overview of GitHub CoPilot, including:
- Understanding Copilot’s capabilities and limitations
- Installing and configuring GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
- Using Copilot for code auto-completion in different languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
- Refactoring code with Copilot suggestions
- Leveraging Copilot for code review processes and maintaining code quality standards
Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with at least one programming language.