GitHub Copilot Accelerated Development Training Course (AZ-2007)
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Description of the training: GitHub Copilot Accelerated Development Training Course (AZ-2007)
This training lets you master GitHub Copilot to accelerate the development of your applications. You will learn to use AI to generate code, documentation and unit tests and to implement code improvements more efficiently and quickly in Visual Studio Code. You may also be interested in our GitHub Copilot GH-300 Training Course, our LLM and Generative AI Training Course, our Microsoft AI-103 Azure AI Expert Training Course, our Microsoft Copilot Studio Training Course, our Copilot Declarative Agents with VS Code Training Course and our Generative AI with Azure Databricks Training Course.
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Our sessions are guaranteed from a single registrant, with no risk of postponement (except in cases of force majeure). A preliminary discussion takes place between the participant and/or a company representative to fully take into account the participant’s profile (level, needs, professional context, challenges, etc.). Assessment: during the training, the trainer assesses participants’ progress through quizzes, role-play and practical exercises. Participants receive a certificate of completion at the end of the training. This training is part of our Artificial Intelligence Training Courses catalogue. Discover our other AI training courses to fully harness the potential of machine learning, LLMs and generative AI.
Objectives of the training: GitHub Copilot Accelerated Development Training Course (AZ-2007)
- Get started with GitHub Copilot and its extensions in Visual Studio Code
- Automatically generate documentation for your code projects
- Develop code features assisted by artificial intelligence
- Create unit tests using GitHub Copilot
- Implement code improvements in terms of quality, reliability and security
Prerequisites of the training: GitHub Copilot Accelerated Development Training Course (AZ-2007)
No specific technical prerequisites. A preliminary discussion with our expert lets us tailor the content to your profile and development objectives.
Target audience of the training: GitHub Copilot Accelerated Development Training Course (AZ-2007)
Developers wanting to accelerate their productivity and code quality with the help of GitHub Copilot.
Detailed programme of the training: GitHub Copilot Accelerated Development Training Course (AZ-2007)
Getting started with GitHub Copilot
- Understand what GitHub Copilot is and the benefits it brings to development
- Install and configure the GitHub Copilot extensions for Visual Studio Code
- Discover the main features of the extensions and their practical use
Generating documentation with GitHub Copilot
- Generate explanations of code blocks, files and workspaces with GitHub Copilot Chat
- Produce complete, structured project documentation
- Automatically create inline code comments (inline documentation)
Assisted code feature development
- Leverage autocompletion suggestions based on the code context
- Manage suggestions: accept, partially accept or dismiss
- Create effective prompts with chat participants, commands and variables
- Use the Chat View, Inline Chat, Quick Chat and Smart Actions features
Creating unit tests with GitHub Copilot
- Create unit tests assisted by GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat
- Develop tests targeting edge cases and specific conditions
- Validate the correct generation and execution of unit tests
Improving and optimising existing code
- Write prompts to improve existing code with GitHub Copilot Chat
- Implement improvement suggestions for quality, reliability and performance
- Strengthen code security using the AI’s recommendations
Why choose this training
- focuses on accelerating development with GitHub Copilot
- covers code generation, improvement and optimisation
- builds on hands-on coding workshops
- delivers an immediate productivity gain for developers
FAQ
What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot is the AI development assistant created by GitHub (Microsoft) and OpenAI. Integrated directly into Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio, it suggests code in real time. At MFE-IT it is delivered in a small group and tailored to your context.
What is the main objective of GitHub Copilot?
The main objective of GitHub Copilot is to increase productivity and code quality by automatically suggesting lines, functions and whole blocks of code.
What is the difference between Copilot and GitHub Copilot?
Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft’s consumer/business range of AI assistants (Microsoft 365 Copilot, Windows Copilot, Edge Copilot). GitHub Copilot is the one dedicated to developers, within the code editor.
How long does it take to learn GitHub Copilot?
Our GitHub Copilot Accelerated Development (AZ-2007) training at MFE-IT lasts 1 day, i.e. 6 hours, delivered remotely (recorded sessions).