Codeium: Free Gen AI Alternative to GitHub Copilot (Virtual)

Workshop date : Oct 4th 2024

Topic: Codeium: Free Gen AI Alternative to GitHub Copilot

Global Big Data Conference is organizing half day Virtual Workshop (4hrs) on Oct 4th 2024 - Using Codeium - a free Gen AI Coding and Chat alternative to GitHub Copilot (half-day)

Codeium is a free alternative to GitHub Copilot to help developers write code more efficiently and faster. It also provides a coding-context chat interface to allow for more direct queries and more substantial knowledge sharing. This half-day course will provide you with a solid understanding of the tool's capabilities and how to use it effectively in your day-to-day coding.

In this half-day, hands-on workshop, we'll cover the basics of Codeium through explanations, visuals, and hands-on experience working with the tool in labs. You'll learn the what, why, and how of Codeium and see how to leverage its generative AI functionality in daily coding tasks across multiple languages. You'll learn techniques and some best practices for working with with Codeium. And you'll learn what differentiates Codeium from GitHub Copilot.

Agenda

i. Introduction:
This section will introduce Codeium and discuss what it is, how it works, and why it is useful. Topics covered will include

An overview of Codeium and its main features

The benefits of using Codeium for code generation and completion

Basic Codeium usage

Hands-on lab: Setup and basic usage for code completion

ii. Navigation and utilizing the assistance from Codeium Chat
This section will help participantsget comfortable and familiar with navigating suggestions from the tool and utilizing some key features of Codeium with its Chat functionality. Topics covered will include

Further Understanding Codeium's suggestions and interface

The additional features of Chat

Learning how to work with code suggestions, completions, and examples

Hands-on lab: Using Codeium and chat to get answers

iii. Other ways to leverage Codeium

Topics covered will include:

Working with Chat more directly

Having Codeium explain code

Having Codeium document code

Asking Copilot questions in code

Hands-on lab: - Other ways to use Codeium's functionality

iv. Test generation
In this section, we'll look at how to generate tests using Codeium. Topics will

include:

Various options for generating test cases via Codeium

Hands-on lab: Using Codeium to generate tests.

v. Codeium and SQL and adding context:
This section will show how Codeium can help with

SQL parsing, generation, and updates. Additionally, we will highlight how to add context for

Codeium to get the best suggestions.Topics covered will include:

Using Codeium with SQL

Adding context to get better suggestions from Codeium

Hands-on lab: Using Codeium to help with SQL

vi. Codeium and updates
In this section, we'll look at why Codeium may not be up-to-date and

how to deal with it when it isn't. Topics covered will include:

Understanding what Codeium's frame of reference is

What to do when Codeium is not up-to-date

Hands-on lab: Teaching Codeium about updates: Examples of how to handle it when Codeium

does not have the most up-to-date information

(if time allows) vii. Javascript, regular expressions, and auto generating data:
In this section,

we'll look at ways to have Codeium help with creating regular expressions and generating data mappings. Topics covered include:

Using Codeium to generate regular expressions

Generating routine mapping data

Hands-on lab: Using Codeium to generate regular expressions and mapping data

vii. Wrap-up and Q&A.

Speaker Bio

I'm Brent Laster - a global trainer and book author, DevOps director at a top technology firm, and founder and president of Tech Skills Transformations LLC. I've been working with and presenting at NFJS events for ten years now and it is always exciting and interesting.

Through my decades in programming and management,I've always tried to make time to learn and develop both technical and leadership skills and share them with others Regardless of the topic or technology, my belief is that there is no substitute for the excitement and sense of potential that come from providing others with the knowledge they need to help them accomplish their goals.

In my spare time, I hang out with my wife Anne-Marie, 4 children and a small dog in Cary, North Carolina and design trainings and write books.

NOTE: Agenda and speakers subject to change without notice

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