// Game of Life Walkthrough

Builds Conway's Game of Life end-to-end using GitHub Copilot Chat and Copilot Edits in Visual Studio Code, demonstrating a realistic iterative AI-assisted development workflow. The video covers model selection (including Claude Sonnet 3.5), prompt engineering best practices, refactoring from a single-file prototype to separate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files using Copilot Edits, and enforcing team coding standards with a Copilot instructions file. It also shows inline chat slash commands (/doc, /explain), Copilot Extensions, README generation, and deploying to GitHub Pages via a GitHub Actions workflow.

Demonstrates GitHub Spark on mobile, building a podcast session timer app entirely through natural language prompts. The video covers iteratively adding timer controls (start, pause, reset), a reverse progress bar, a color-coded time-remaining indicator (green/amber/red), and AI-powered timer creation from a plain-language description—showcasing GitHub Spark's built-in LLM integration. It also demonstrates Spark's managed state storage and the share link for giving collaborators read or write access.

Whether you’re addressing an issue, iterating on a pull request, or bootstrapping a project, GitHub Copilot Workspace helps jumpstart your tasks by describing what you want in natural language. You remain in control as you move between tasks, specs, plans, and code. Join GitHub's Chris Reddington, senior program manager of DevRel, and Cole Bemis, research engineer on GitHub Next, for an introduction to Copilot Workspace, a Copilot-native dev environment launched in April 2024 by GitHub Next. Learn how Copilot Workspace works, how we got here, and what we've learned so far from the technical preview.