GitHub Copilot Masterclass: The best AI Pair Programmer (Udemy.com)

Welcome to this GitHub Copilot masterclass 2024! In this course, you'll learn how to harness the power of this AI-driven coding assistant to enhance your programming skills and productivity. You will learn how to write the perfect prompts by learning the art of Prompt Engineering.

GitHub Copilot is an AI tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI. It acts as your coding partner, offering intelligent code suggestions and autocompletion directly within your editor. Whether you're writing JavaScript, Python, or any other language, Copilot can help you write code faster and more efficiently.

Hi, My name is Sameer and I will be your instructor for this course,

In this course, I will cover everything you need to know to become an expert in this AI tool.

I will guide you and provide you with all the tips and tricks you need to get started and to efficiently use this AI coding assistant. You will learn how to craft the perfect prompt so that Copilot can suggest to you the code that closely aligns to your need, reducing the chance of generic or sub-optimal code.

But you must be thinking, why use GitHub Copilot? Well, it’s simple, Copilot boosts your productivity by increasing your coding speed, and Copilot suggests whole lines or blocks of code as you type.

It helps catch any mistakes before they happen. It gives you multiple code suggestions for the same piece of code and you are always in full control to accept or reject the code suggestion.

In this course, I will use some real-world examples and different programming languages to explain how we can use GitHub copilot in these different situations.

By the end of this course, you'll have a deep understanding of how to use GitHub Copilot to accelerate your coding process and improve your overall development workflow. Enroll in this course and take your coding to the next level.

Topics covered in the course:

• What is GitHub Copilot and Introduction

• Signing Up to GitHub Copilot and setting up Visual Studio Code to install and run GitHub Copilot

• How does GitHub Copilot work

• How does GitHub Copilot handle data

• The art of Prompt Engineering or Prompt Crafting (Write and refine prompts for GitHub Copilot to best utilize the tool)

• How to use GitHub Copilot and its features

• GitHub Copilot chat deep-dive

• Other ways to access GitHub Copilot chat and get code suggestions

• Comment Driven Development with GitHub Copilot coding assistant

• Fix and Explain features in GitHub Copilot (Fix your broken code and ask GitHub Copilot to explain code and write documents)

• Writing prompts in a different language for GitHub Copilot (for example Hindi, Spanish)

• Practicals: GitHub Copilot for Web development

• Practicals: GitHub Copilot for C# and ASP.NET development