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Useful prompts to learn programming with Copilot

Useful prompts to learn programming with Copilot

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Useful prompts to learn programming with Copilot

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- [Instructor] All right, we're nearly at the end of our course, but I'm actually going to share one of my favorite things to do with Copilot, which I think is a really powerful way for beginners to expand their knowledge with really complex open source projects. And that is to use Copilot, or any other AI, to get literally a well-defined summary of any project that gives me all the details I need to know to kind of read it like a developer guide before I dive in. So let's take a look. So to do that, we are going to really revisit the three projects, Terrarium, Typing Game and Space Game, but I'm going to do it in a specific order. First, we're going to go to the Typing Game and see if we can, without doing anything other than use Copilot, get it to explain to us what the Typing Game code does. Then we're going to go look at the Space Game and think about how we can do a more complicated prompt. And in both these cases, I've pre-done the prompt, so you'll just see the results. And…

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