📅 2023-02-07 — Session: Customized VS Code and Activated GitHub Copilot
🕒 11:15–12:45
🏷️ Labels: Visual Studio Code, Github Copilot, Python, Dataframe, README
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance the development environment by customizing Visual Studio Code and activating GitHub Copilot, followed by documentation and data manipulation tasks.
Key Activities
- Visual Studio Code Customization: Changed the color theme and adjusted appearance settings such as font size and line spacing.
- GitHub Copilot Activation: Activated GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and addressed common troubleshooting issues.
- Documentation: Created an outline for the README.md of the IGN_INDEC_georef repository, detailing installation instructions for Python modules and setup for Windows.
- Data Manipulation: Resolved a KeyError in DataFrame column selection, converted year values to strings, and selected specific columns from a DataFrame named
proy_pop.
Achievements
- Successfully customized Visual Studio Code settings to improve the development environment.
- Activated GitHub Copilot, enhancing coding efficiency with AI assistance.
- Developed a comprehensive README.md outline for the IGN_INDEC_georef repository.
- Improved data manipulation techniques in Python, resolving errors and enhancing data processing capabilities.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of GitHub Copilot’s integration with existing projects to ensure seamless functionality.