GitHub Copilot Fundamentals
  • Type Learning

GitHub Copilot Fundamentals

Issued by Allstate

Earners who receive this badge are familiar with the core concepts of GitHub Copilot and Large Language Models. Earners receive this badge by completing the GitHub Copilot learning pathway or attending a 3-hour instructor led hands-on lecture and achieving a pass mark in a multiple-choice quiz assessment.

  • Type Learning

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Completion of learning pathway or 3- hour Instructor led hands on lecture
  • Achieving pass mark in a multiple-choice quiz assessment which shows participant has a fundamental understanding of:
  • What GitHub Copilot is, how it works and its benefits for developers
  • How to use an Integrated Development Environment such as Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ, with the GitHub Copilot plugin.
  • The process of signing into GitHub Copilot from Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ.
  • Using prompt engineering based on the 4S Method for creating prompts, and the Zero-Shot, One-Shot and Few-Shot Prompting techniques.
  • Using GitHub Chat.
  • Using GitHub Copilot to:
  • Write code from prompts which are comments.
  • Autocomplete code.
  • Explain, fix, refactor code and write tests for code.
  • Create a simple API call from a React component.
  • Create code from Gherkin user stories and vice versa.
  • Create SQL statements from a database schema.
  • Create Infrastructure as Code, IaC.