NEOPOLIS AKADEMY
Software Development with GitHub Copilot
Practical course on responsible GitHub Copilot use for software development: context engineering, customizing suggestions, testing strategies, code security and performance optimization within iterative development cycles.
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What you will explore
Principles of prompt construction and context engineering to get relevant suggestions.
Customization and filtering of generated assists to match project style and constraints.
Integrating Copilot suggestions into unit and integration testing workflows.
Security practices: review, filtering and managing suggested dependencies.
Measures to evaluate and improve quality and performance of AI-assisted code.
STEP BY STEP
Course programme
01Software Development with GitHub Copilot
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.
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