This workshop provides a beginner-friendly introduction to coding with GitHub Copilot, a popular AI coding assistant. We will start from the basics so you can take advantage of AI assistants to improve your coding and avoid common pitfalls. First, we'll cover how to install and set-up Visual Studio Code, a free code editor through which we will use GitHub Copilot. Then, we will go through the different features of GitHub Copilot and how to use them to help us code in Python.
D-Lab's Python Fundamentals or equivalent knowledge.
Participants must have a GitHub Copilot account. This workshop uses Visual Studio Code and Python. Both can be installed by following the steps described here.
If Visual Studio Code or Python are not working on your laptop, you must use GitHub Codespaces; information about the using GitHub Codespaces for this workshop can be found here.