GitHub Copilot Jumpstart

This 1/2 day workshop gives anyone who works with code a practical, no-fluff introduction to GitHub Copilot and leads you through developing the basic skills you need to start being productive with it.

Through focused training and hands-on labs you’ll learn what GitHub Copilot is, the good and the bad of using it, how to navigate and work effectively with its different IDE interfaces and how to leverage it to quickly improve your productivity in writing code, tests, and simplifying key tasks like documentation.

You'll also learn about how Copilot can be used in GitHub itself to provide insight into your repositories, work with pull requests and more!

Join speaker, trainer and author of Learning GitHub Copilot, Brent Laster for a fast-paced and informative session to start quickly and effectively using Copilot to:

Suggest, create, fix, and explain code
Create and run tests
Generate all types of documentation easily
Leverage Copilot in GitHub for working with repositories, issues, pull requests, etc.
Work across languages and platforms
And more!

The default environment for this workshop will be a GitHub Codespace already configured and setup with everything you need that can be run in a browser! You will need a valid userid on the public GitHub.com to access content.

About Brent Laster

Hi, I'm Brent Laster - a global trainer and book author, experienced corporate technology developer and leader, and founder and president of Tech Skills Transformations LLC. I've been working with and presenting at NFJS events for many years now and it is always exciting and interesting.

Through my decades in programming and management,I've always tried to make time to learn and develop both technical and leadership skills and share them with others Regardless of the topic or technology, my belief is that there is no substitute for the excitement and sense of potential that come from providing others with the knowledge they need to help them accomplish their goals.

In my spare time, I hang out with my wife Anne-Marie, 4 children and 2 small dogs in Cary, North Carolina where I design and conduct trainings and write books. You can find me on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/brentlaster), Twitter (@brentclaster) or through my company's website at www.getskillsnow.com.

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