GitHub Copilot Fundamentals - Understand the AI pair programmer

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Explore the fundamentals of GitHub Copilot and its potential to enhance productivity and foster innovation for both individual developers and businesses. Discover how to implement it within your organization and unleash its power for your own projects.

In this learning path, you'll:

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of the distinctions between GitHub Copilot for Individuals, GitHub Copilot for Business, and GitHub Copilot X.

  • Explore various use cases for GitHub Copilot for Business, including real-life examples showcasing how customers have leveraged it to boost their productivity.

  • Receive step-by-step instructions on enabling GitHub Copilot for Individuals and GitHub Copilot for Business, ensuring a seamless integration into your workflows.

Prerequisites

  • Basic understanding of GitHub fundamentals

Modules in this learning path

This module explores the responsible use of AI in the context of GitHub Copilot, a generative AI tool for developers. It will equip you with the knowledge and skills to leverage Copilot effectively while mitigating potential ethical and operational risks associated with AI usage.

GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real time, right from your editor.

Discover the essentials of creating effective prompts with GitHub Copilot. Uncover techniques to transform your coding comments into precise, actionable code, enhancing your development workflow.

Use advanced GitHub Copilot features with a Python application.

Explore the multifaceted capabilities of GitHub Copilot across various development environments. Learn to harness AI-assisted coding in your IDE, engage in natural language conversations for complex tasks, and enhance your command-line productivity.

This module explores using GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat to create unit tests. Exercises provide practical experience creating unit test projects and running unit tests in Visual Studio Code.  

Learn about the difference between GitHub Copilot Business versus GitHub Copilot Individuals. Also learn about specific use cases and customer stories for GitHub Copilot Business as well as how to enable it.

Learn about the differences between GitHub Copilot for Enterprise, for Business, and for Individuals. Examine specific use cases, including how to enable and use GitHub Copilot Enterprise.

Use GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code, to work with JavaScript

GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code in Python.