Step-by-Step: Setting Up GitHub Student and GitHub Copilot as an Authenticated Student Developer
To become an authenticated GitHub Student Developer, follow these steps: create a GitHub account, verify student status through a school email or contact GitHub support, sign up for the student developer pack, connect to Copilot and activate the GitHub Student Developer Pack benefits. The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers 100s of free software offers and other benefits such as Azure credit, Codespaces, a student gallery, campus experts program, and a learning lab. Copilot provides autocomplete-style suggestions from AI as you code. Visual Studio Marketplace also offers GitHub Copilot Labs, a companion extension with experimental features, and GitHub Copilot for autocomplete-style suggestions. Setting up your GitHub Student and GitHub Copilot as an authenticated Github Student DeveloperStep-by-Step: How to Setup Copilot Chat in VS Code
Copilot Chat is an AI-powered chatbot leveraging OpenAI's GPT-4, designed to enhance your coding workflow. Learn how to set up Copilot Chat step by step in Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Benefit from personalized and flexible coding environments, code analysis, automated unit test generation, and bug fixes. Prerequisites include an active GitHub account and the latest version of VS Code. Elevate your coding efficiency to new heights with Copilot Chat.Model Mondays S2:E6 Understanding Research & Innovation with SeokJin Han and Saumil Shrivastava
In this week's blog post, we dive into the cutting-edge research happening at Azure AI Foundry Labs. From the MCP Server that makes it easy to experiment with new models and tools, to Magentic-UI that brings human-centered agent workflows to life, there’s a lot to unpack!Model Mondays S2E8: On-Device & Local AI
Model Mondays S2E8: On-Device & Local AI Welcome to Episode 8! This week, we explored how AI is moving from the cloud to your own device, making it faster, more private, and more accessible. We also saw a real-world customer story from Xander Glasses, showing how AI can help people with hearing loss. RFD Observability tools in Azure AI Foundry: Real-time model telemetry, auto evals, quick evals, Python grader. GitHub Copilot Pro with Spark: AI pair programmer for code explanation and workflow suggestions. Synthetic Data for Vision Models: Training accurate models with procedurally generated data. Agent-Friendly Websites: Making sites accessible to AI agents via APIs, semantic markup, and OpenAPI specs. MCP (Model Context Protocol): Standardizing agent memory and context for scalable AI.
What is GitHub Codespaces and how can Students access it for free?
GitHub Codespaces is a new service that is free for anyone to develop with powerful environments using Visual Studio Code. In this post, we'll cover how you can make use of this new technology and take advantage of its most powerful features.How to Optimize your Codespaces: Pro-tips for managing quotas
Now that GitHub Codespaces is free for anyone, you might be surprised to see how fast you can hit the free quota. Here are four things you can do to make the most out of the 90 hours you get every month (and 180 hours if you are a student).¿Cómo instalar GitHub Copilot en Visual Studio?
[Blog original en inglés] GitHub Copilot es un asistente de programación impulsado por Inteligencia Artificial (IA) que puede ejecutarse en varios entornos, ayudándote a ser más eficiente en tus tareas diarias de programación. En este blog, te mostraremos específicamente cómo funciona GitHub Copilot en Visual Studio y cómo puede aumentar tu productividad. Comprendiendo la diferencia entre GitHub Copilot y GitHub Copilot Chat: GitHub Copilot funciona directamente en tus archivos de código, proporcionando sugerencias para tu código. Funciona de manera similar a IntelliSense, pero es capaz de proponer bloques completos de código en base a lo que estás escribiendo. También proporciona acceso a comandos, puede explicar el código y ofrecer funciones adicionales directamente respecto a tus archivos. GitHub Copilot Chat funciona en una ventana independiente dentro del entorno de Visual Studio. Proporciona un asistente de chat que puede recordar el contexto de la conversación y ofrecer sugerencias inteligentes. Ambas extensiones se pueden instalar por separado. Te recomendamos probar ambas para que puedas elegir la que prefieras. En próximas oportunidades, te mostraremos más detalles sobre cada una de estas extensiones. Instalando las extensiones de GitHub Copilot Ambas extensiones se pueden instalar directamente desde Visual Studio, a través del menú Extensiones / Administrar extensiones. Desde allí, busca GitHub Copilot y GitHub Copilot Chat. También puedes dirigirte a Visual Studio Marketplace, que contiene una gran cantidad de extensiones para mejorar tu experiencia con Visual Studio. Ten en cuenta que GitHub Copilot requiere Visual Studio 2022 17.5.5 o posterior. Más información Para obtener más información, consulta nuestra colección de recursos aquí. Mantente al tanto de este blog para más contenido sobre Visual Studio. Y, por supuesto, ¡también puedes suscribirte a nuestro canal de YouTube para más contenido!Announcing GitHub Universe Cloud Skills Challenge!
Join the GitHub Universe Cloud Skills Challenge and start your exiting journey in AI! Whether you’re beginning or looking to change your career, this learning experience is designed to introduce you to some of the most requested GitHub tools for AI beginners, and to explore new opportunities. Join the GitHub Universe Cloud Skills Challenge and start your exciting journey in AI!
