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Overview of using GitHub Copilot

Overview of using GitHub Copilot - Rust Tutorial

From the course: Rust Programming: From Fundamentals to Advanced Concepts with AI-Assisted Development

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Overview of using GitHub Copilot

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- Assisted AI pair programming is what we're going to be focusing in. And specifically, we're going to do that with GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot is an extension for Visual Studio Code. It's actually a service from GitHub. But the extension for Visual Studio Code will allow you to provide suggestions as you're typing or even go through certain instructions so that we can get accurate suggestions to what we're trying to do. Now, you may be thinking that getting suggestions as you're trying to learn a programming language like Rust might defeat the purpose of learning, but the thing is that it will enhance your learning. It'll allow you to go faster. And the way I describe it is like having someone that is very knowledgeable in Rust in this case, that is sitting right there next to you, giving you suggestions as you're trying to implement something that you kind of have a good notion of what it is, and it'll get you there. Now we'll try to install it, we'll try to configure it. We'll…

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