Learn GitHub Copilot, step by step

Copilot is an AI pair programmer inside your editor and on GitHub. The course moves from judging its inline suggestions to steering it on whole tasks you review like a teammate's pull request.

Good for: Developers, and people learning to code who want to understand what the AI wrote.

The tool: GitHub Copilot, at github.com/features/copilot. AILE teaches it to learners 13 and older, in line with the provider's terms.

What the course covers

The GitHub Copilot module in AILE is 14 short, hands-on lessons in 4 chapters. You practise each skill on a real task, not by watching a video.

  1. Chapter 1. Meet the pair programmer

    • Meet Copilot
    • Write the intent
    • Judge the ghost text

  2. Chapter 2. Ask, edit, understand

    • Talk to it in chat
    • Ground it in a Space
    • Make it explain

  3. Chapter 3. Delegate and steer

    • Pick the brain, plug in tools
    • Teach it your rules
    • Delegate the whole task
    • Put Copilot on review
    • Complete with your guard up

  4. Chapter 4. Prove it

    • Episode: the legacy function
    • Episode: the background PR
    • The gauntlet: tab with judgment

Is it free?

The GitHub Copilot module is part of AILE Pro. Every foundation track in AILE, including AI Basics and Prompt Engineering, is free.

Before you rely on it

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