GitHub Copilot for System-Level Development
1h 7mAdvanced2025-11-25
Authors
Pragmatic AI Labs
Course details
Dive into the nuances of advanced system-level development with GitHub Copilot. This course outlines advanced prompting techniques; offers challenges that give you hands-on experience in areas like AI-assisted test-driven development (TDD); and shares strategies for debugging and working efficiently with large codebases. Discover the importance of automation as a foundational skill for developers and learn innovative patterns, workflows, and automation tactics aimed at improving your coding efficiency. Whether you're a seasoned developer looking to optimize your workflow or just keen on learning more advanced coding techniques, this course offers tools and insights to help you work smarter.
Skills covered
Github CopilotSoftware ArchitectureGitHubAI Development Tools and PlatformsDevOps FoundationsBuilding with AIDevOpsSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Course introduction
Module 1 - AI-Augmented Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Introduction to AI-assisted TDD
- Generating complex test suites
- Mocking dependencies with Copilot
- Challenge - TDD for a new feature
- Solution - TDD for a new feature
- Evaluating test coverage
Module 2 - Large-Scale Refactoring
- Strategic use of workspace
- Analyzing cross-file dependencies
- Challenge - System-wide code cleanup
- Solution - System-wide code cleanup
- Enforcing styles and constraints
- Generating guidelines for specific tasks
Module 3 - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Copilot
- Generating IaC configurations
- Creating Dockerfiles with AI
- Terraform configuration generation
- Course wrap-up