Improve coding skills with GitHub Copilot

  • 5 minutes

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps educators and learners with developer scenarios. Within its integrated development environment (IDE), GitHub Copilot can help educators and learners generate everything from coding assignments to writing test cases. It can also:

  • Answer questions
  • Explain coding concepts
  • Offer prompts for writing code
  • Debug code
  • Offer help on how to use the command line

Screenshot of a chat in which GitHub Copilot helps a learner write tests for a Python function.

GitHub Copilot is free for all verified educators and learners 13 years and older. It’s a powerful tool that can save time, improve coding skills, and teach industry best practices.

GitHub Copilot can help educators:

  • Enhance teaching and create coding examples, assignments, and projects more efficiently by:
    • Generating code snippets
    • Suggesting improvements
    • Explaining complex concepts
  • Develop coding curricula, including exercises and solutions
  • Provide personalized feedback to learners and help them understand their mistakes and learn more effectively

GitHub Copilot can help learners:

  • Write code by suggesting completions and corrections, which is particularly useful for beginners learning syntax and best practices
  • Overcome coding challenges with suggestions and solutions
  • Accelerate project development by helping them to focus more on learning concepts and less on debugging syntax errors

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To get free access to GitHub Copilot, create a GitHub Education account today.