Software Development with GitHub Copilot

Course overview

This course examines using GitHub Copilot to write and refine code. It covers Copilot’s capabilities, interaction modes, and practical techniques to steer the assistant by providing context and well-crafted instructions.

Introduction to Copilot and what it can do, with a tour of its interaction modes.

Techniques to supply context (e.g. #context) and inject domain expertise for better results.

How to tune outputs: typing, documentation, instruction design and model selection.

Practical use covering tests, code quality, security considerations and creating multi-component tests.