AI-151 Using Codeium

AI-151: Using Codeium for code and test generation as well as code refactoring, explanation and documentation

Course Description:

Codeium is one of the most popular alternatives to Github Copilot among coding assistant applications which help programmers at generating, refactoring, explaining and documenting programming codes in dozens of languages as well as at test generation for the same codes. Besides its free tier license option for individual programmers with a broad feature set it also has Teams and Enterprise licensing options with additional features, and the options of fine tuning the application to the codebase of the team or enterprise as well as running Codeium locally at the customer’s site.

This 8-hours training teaches students how to install and configure Codeium as well as the main features and their effective use of the Teams and Enterprise licensing option.

Main topics:

• Introduction and main features of Codeium
• Codeium autocompletion
• Codeium Chat
• Advanced features (Explain, Document, Refactor, Unit-test generation)
• Adding context
• Writing machine friendly code, comments and commits (Context is everything)

Course Length: 8 training hours

Structure: 50% lecture, 50% hands on lab exercises

Target audience: Software developers and testers as well as their technical managers who want to use Codeium in their daily work.

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of AI concepts, experience in using the programming language where Codeium would be used as a coding assistant, user experience with ChatGPT or similar chatbots.