To get the most out of this book

You’ll get more out of this book if you’ve built a few projects in each domain as opposed to being a complete beginner. Therefore, the book focuses on empowering you in your existing development workflows. We recommend other titles by Packt if you are completely new to web development or machine learning. See the below list for recommendations:

• https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/html5-web-application-development-by-example-beginners-guide-9781849695947
• Machine Learning with Python: Unlocking AI Potential with Python and Machine Learning by Oliver Theobald (https://www.packtpub.com/en-US/product/machine-learning-with-python-9781835461969)

The book is built in such a way that you’re shown the prompts you’re recommended to write followed by the results from the chosen AI tool.

• To follow along with the chapters on web development, we recommend installing Visual Studio Code. There are dedicated chapters in the book pointing out how to install GitHub Copilot and leverage it. See the installation instructions for Visual Studio Code here: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• For the machine learning chapters, the majority of those chapters use ChatGPT, which can be accessed through a web browser. We do recommend solving those problems using notebooks, which can be viewed through a variety of different tools. For more detailed instructions on Notebook setup, refer to this page: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-notebooks
• To use GitHub Copilot, you need a GitHub account to log in to. Refer to this page on the setup process for GitHub Copilot: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/quickstart

Download the example code files

The code bundle for the book is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/AI-Assisted-Software-Development-with-GitHub-Copilot-and-ChatGPT. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://packt.link/gbp/9781835086056.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and X(formerly known as Twitter) handles. For example: “Now that the product.css is created with the above content, we can include said CSS file in an HTML file.”

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. For example: “Create new user: It should be possible to create a new user.”

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.