Conclusion: From the Course to the Career
Connect the practical skills you've gained in using AI as a coding assistant to your real-world workflows as software developers.
Congratulations on completing this course! Pat yourself on the back for making it to the end successfully.
Throughout this course, you’ve learned to harness AI as a coding assistant in specific, practical ways. Now, let’s quickly explore how real software developers work and how the skills you’ve learned map directly to their daily workflows. Rather than covering all aspects of software development, we’ll focus on the key processes we’ve practiced in this course and how they translate to professional settings.
Understanding code: The developer’s first challenge
Professional developers spend a significant portion of their time reading and understanding code. This might be code written by teammates, code from open-source projects, or even their own code from months ago. In this course, you learned to use AI as a code explainer, which mirrors this crucial professional skill.
When developers encounter unfamiliar code, they need to break it down and understand its purpose, structure, ...