-: Hey, welcome back.
So in this video, before getting started with Copilot,
we need to actually install it.
So there's two things that we're gonna need to install
to use GitHub Copilot.
The first thing is we're gonna download
and install something called Visual Studio Code,
which is a coding editor, open sourced
and created by Microsoft.
After you've downloaded that, just make sure
that you've got it installed on a desktop.
So it'll be fairly simple for Windows and Mac.
I'm currently running a Mac setup.
Once you've got it installed, you should be able to open
an interface that looks a little bit like this.
And notice on the left side,
we've got all these different toggles.
So what I want you to do
is click on the one called Extensions.
And basically how it works is,
Visual Studio Code has extensions
that allow us to basically extend
the functionality of the VS code.
And one of these is GitHub Copilot.
So what I want you to do
is basically go into the Extensions marketplace
and find this GitHub Copilot.
You'll then need to click install,
and after that is installed,
you'll then need to validate that it's set up correctly.
It may send you through some type of installation.
And as well as that, on your GitHub account,
you'll need to make sure
that you have some sort of Copilot subscription.
So if I go to my profile, go to settings,
and then I go to Copilot.
And you can find this in your github.com/settings/copilot.
So what you wanna do is you want to go there,
yeah, allow it to block suggestions from public code,
allow it to use your own snippets,
and then go to Billings and Plans.
And you'll currently see there's this add-on.
So I'm on a yearly plan,
but you'll want to get this add-on called GitHub Copilot.
And then as you install Visual Studio Code,
it will ask you to install,
to link with a GitHub profile.
So make sure that you also have a github.com profile set up,
and that you've got some valid billing on this,
so that when you've installed VS Code,
you've installed that VS Code extension,
set up GitHub.com's /setting/billing.
Make sure that you click on this add-on
to install GitHub Copilot.
And I pay for the annual, the annual pan,
which is a $100,
but you could pay monthly if you prefer to do that.
And then in the next lesson, we'll get started
with learning about what are the different types of prompts
that we can use inside of GitHub Copilot.
So some of these prompts might be to make functions,
some of these might be to write parts of the code.
And GitHub Copilot is really, really good
at writing code for us.
So I'll see you in the next one.