GitHub Copilot: AI-Powered Coding & Productivity

Overview

Unlock the power of AI in software development with our comprehensive GitHub Copilot course. Designed to enhance your coding experience, this course introduces you to the features and techniques that will transform your development workflow.

What You Will Learn in this Course:

Introduction to GitHub Copilot Get started with an overview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-driven pair programming tool. Understand its strengths and limitations, ensuring you are aware of its capabilities and boundaries.

You'll learn to configure Copilot in Visual Studio and experience a live demo showcasing basic code completion, setting the stage for a seamless integration into your coding environment. Core Features Delve into Copilot's core features, which offer significant productivity gains.

Explore quick wins that can immediately enhance your efficiency and understand the concept of comment-driven development, where Copilot turns comments into code, streamlining your coding process. Using Copilot Efficiently Discover strategies to maximize efficiency with Copilot.

From creating new projects to developing APIs and wiring up backends, learn how Copilot can simplify complex coding tasks. Gain insights into generating in-code and API documentation, along with automating unit test creation, making your development process more robust and well-documented.

Conclude with a summary of key learnings to continue applying Copilot's benefits in your future projects. Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, participants will be equipped with the skills to harness GitHub Copilot effectively, transforming their coding workflow through AI-enhanced programming.

They will gain a solid foundation in integrating Copilot into various development tasks, from code completion to documentation and testing. This course empowers developers to blend their existing coding expertise with cutting-edge AI technology, ensuring they remain at the forefront of software development innovation.

Target Learners Software developers and engineers looking to integrate AI into their daily workflow. It is ideal for programmers who want to master comment-driven development, automate repetitive tasks like unit testing, and leverage GitHub Copilot to accelerate project delivery while maintaining high documentation standards.

Syllabus

• Introduction
This module introduces GitHub Copilot as an AI pair programmer and helps learners understand where it adds value in everyday development work. Learners explore Copilot’s strengths and limitations, set it up in Visual Studio, and see how basic code completion can speed up coding tasks.
• Core Features
This module focuses on the everyday features that help developers get quick value from GitHub Copilot. Learners practice finding immediate productivity gains and using clear comments and intent-driven prompts to generate more useful code suggestions.
• Using Copilot Efficiently
This module shows how to use GitHub Copilot across a realistic development workflow, from starting a project to building APIs, wiring backend logic, and creating documentation and tests. Learners see how to collaborate with Copilot more intentionally throughout the software development lifecycle.

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Taught by

Mumshad Mannambeth

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Subjects

Programming