To complete the exercises, you will need an environment with GitHub Copilot and Python installed.
1. Ensuring you have access to GitHub Copilot
If you DO NOT have one of the following:
- an active Copilot for Individuals trial
- an active Copilot for Individuals subscription
- an active Copilot for Business licence
- an active Copilot for Enterprise licence
you can sign up for a trial here.
2. Installing a supported IDE on your local machine
If you DO NOT have one of the following:
- VSCode <<< RECOMMENDED FOR THIS EXERCISE
- Visual Studio
- NeoVIM
- JetBrains IDE
on your local machine, you will need to install one of these IDEs to use GitHub Copilot and complete the exercises.
If you have no preference, we suggest you install VSCode. You can download it here.
3. Installing the GitHub Copilot extension
GitHub Copilot is a client-side extension you install into your supported developer IDE. The extension is available for VSCode, Visual Studio, NeoVIM and JetBrains IDEs.
Click the appropriate IDE link below for instructions to install the extension. As part of this you will need to log in using your GitHub account to ensure you are a licensed user of GitHub Copilot.
You should now have the GitHub Copilot extension installed in your IDE of choice.
4. Installing Python
You can install Python on your machine by downloading it here.
5. Installing Python package manager
You can install Python package manager (pip) on your machine by executing the following python command.
python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip --user6. Installing Python packages
There are several Python packages you will need to install to complete the exercises. You can install them by executing the following python command.
pip install pandas numpy matplotlib seaborn scikit-learn ipykernel jupyter_core jupyter_client --user