Preface

Welcome to your learning journey using GitHub Copilot for coding-related engineering tasks. We are excited to show you around its toolset and how it extends our normal workflows.

GitHub Copilot is having a profound impact on the tech industry, from helping engineers implement code changes faster to helping stakeholders and product owners describe their requirements more easily. It does not matter how much experience you have with coding – GitHub Copilot provides help to everyone, supporting all phases of the software development lifecycle. That makes it easier to generate code changes, add tests to it, and write the deployment pipelines. Want to discover more about coding practices? GitHub Copilot is your peer programming helper that can explain it all to you.

Leveraging the foundation language models such as GPT-5, Gemini, Claude Sonnet, and more, GitHub has added specific features in lots of smart places in your favorite editors, including VS Code, Eclipse, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, and more. Next to that, there is a realm of additional support on GitHub.com, where the engineering process happens: from general research to issue creation, to adding code, making a pull request, and helping with debugging your pipeline issues. GitHub Copilot has integrations with all these steps into the developer workflow.

Join us to learn all about GitHub Copilot, as we guide you through the learning curve that the authors have used to train thousands of engineers over the last few years.