What it does This was a GitHub Skills course that walked developers through using GitHub Copilot inside VS Code with Codespaces. It taught prompt engineering, inline suggestions, and chat-based coding assistance through hands-on exercises.

The interesting bit GitHub’s Skills platform itself is a neat idea: interactive tutorials that run in real repos with automated feedback. This particular course got enough traction (1,896 stars) to merit a proper deprecation notice rather than quiet abandonment.

Key highlights

• Replaced by getting-started-with-github-copilot
• Covered Copilot in VS Code specifically, not the broader ecosystem
• Part of GitHub’s structured learning path for AI-assisted development
• Stars suggest it served its audience well while active

Caveats

• README is a tombstone: zero technical content remains
• No archive of the original exercises visible in the repo

Verdict Worth a bookmark only if you’re tracing GitHub’s Copilot education evolution. Active learners should follow the redirect; historians should note the 2023-2024 era when “Copilot in Codespaces” needed its own dedicated course.