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Copilot Fundamentals - Training Exercises

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Getting Started

Prompt engineering is the process of designing and creating high-quality prompts that can be used to generate accurate and useful code suggestions with Copilot.

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✏️ Copilot First Steps (🕙 5 min)

  • Description:

  • Configurations

    • Check the configuration options of your Copilot Plugin

      copilot-config

    • Check the Copilot keyboard shortcuts in your IDE. A link to them should be listed in the config options.

      • Specifically have a look at the Keyboard shortcut for the Copilot Suggestions Tab

  • Copilot Suggestions

    • Use Inline help

      • Open a code file in your IDE (eg.: phoneNumberValidator.py)

      • Start typing a comment, to tell Copilot what you want it to do

      • Example:

        # function to validate phone numbers and to return a true or false value

        Hit return to 'trigger' Copilot Suggestions

    • Use the Suggestions Tab

      • The default shortcut for VS-Code is: control + enter
      • IntelliJ Jetbrains does not have shortcut defined by default, please create one.

  • Repository Link: Inside the /copilot-fundamentals-training Repo open, /demos/copilot-operations/phoneNumberValidator.py



Prompt Techniques

✏️ Prompt Techniques & Neighboring Tabs (🕙 5 min)

✏️ Think step by step (🕙 10 min)

  • Description: Create a NodeJS calculator, with the help of Copilot

    • Open the /demos/Node-Calculator/README.md

    • Follow the instructions in that file.

      • The ':arrow_forward: Help' sections provide solution examples, click them to expand. ...

  • Repository Link: Inside the /copilot-fundamentals-training Repo open, /demos/Node-Calculator/README.md

Tips & Techniques

✏️ Copilot Mulitlingual Features (🕙 5 min)

  • Description: Test Copilots Multilingual features. For this exercise we don't require any pre-set files from the Repo, simply open a new file in your IDE and follo the instructions below.

    • Choose any language and instruct Copilot to create code. For example import statements, functions etc.

      • Choose any coding-language you prefer

      • Spanish:

      // Importar todas las bibliotecas 
// necesarias para FileStreaming
      • German:
      // Importiere alle erforderlichen 
// Bibliotheken für FileStreaming

    • Optional: Create a class that provides greetings or form labels in multiple languages Choose any coding-language you prefer Try non-ASCII character sets (eg.: Chinese, Hebrew, ...)

  • Repository Link: None, simply use a new file in your IDE

✏️ Offering Alternatives (🕙 5 min)

If at first you don’t succeed, try again

  • Description

    • Create a NEW file in your IDE, with a description comment

    • ⚠️ NOTE: The file extension you choose determines the code language that Copilot provides suggestions for!

      For example: myfunction.js will tell Copilot to use Javascript/Node as the suggestion language.

      • Use this sample
      // @description This function sorts numbers based on a given order.

    • Have a look what Copilot suggests

    • Modify the “description comment”, for example provide more details and check the provided suggestions again

  • Repository Link: None, simply use a new file in your IDE

✏️ Use Copilot to Understand / Explain Code (🕙 5 min)

"Extra Credit" (optional 😃 )

Have a look at writing a Client App to subscribe to Copilot incidents.