GitHub for Beginners: Essential features of GitHub Copilot

The GitHub for Beginners series delves into the functionalities of GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer designed to assist users in writing code, offering features like code completion, inline chat, and Copilot Chat. This guide explores how to create a simple rock, paper, scissors game using Copilot in Visual Studio Code, highlighting tools such as ghost text for code suggestions, inline chat for quick fixes, and Copilot Chat for more extensive tasks like building a graphical user interface (GUI). It also introduces advanced features such as slash commands for common prompts and chat participants for contextual assistance, allowing users to interact efficiently with Copilot. Additionally, Copilot Edits is presented as a tool for iterating on code changes using natural language, enhancing productivity by enabling simultaneous edits across multiple files. The guide concludes by encouraging users to review AI-generated code carefully and emphasizes Copilot's role as an assistant to augment, rather than replace, a developer's skills.