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AI-Assisted Programming for Web and Machine Learning

AI-Assisted Programming for Web and Machine Learning

By : Christoffer Noring, Anjali Jain, Marina Fernandez, Ayşe Mutlu, Ajit Jaokar
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AI-Assisted Programming for Web and Machine Learning

AI-Assisted Programming for Web and Machine Learning

4.9 (11)
By: Christoffer Noring, Anjali Jain, Marina Fernandez, Ayşe Mutlu, Ajit Jaokar
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Overview of this book

AI-Assisted Programming for Web and Machine Learning shows you how to build applications and machine learning models and automate repetitive tasks. Part 1 focuses on coding, from building a user interface to the backend. You’ll use prompts to create the appearance of an app using HTML, styling with CSS, adding behavior with JavaScript, and working with multiple viewports. Next, you’ll build a web API with Python and Flask and refactor the code to improve code readability. Part 1 ends with using GitHub Copilot to improve the maintainability and performance of existing code. Part 2 provides a prompting toolkit for data science from data checking (inspecting data and creating distribution graphs and correlation matrices) to building and optimizing a neural network. You’ll use different prompt strategies for data preprocessing, feature engineering, model selection, training, hyperparameter optimization, and model evaluation for various machine learning models and use cases. The book closes with chapters on advanced techniques on GitHub Copilot and software agents. There are tips on code generation, debugging, and troubleshooting code. You’ll see how simpler and AI-powered agents work and discover tool calling.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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To get the most out of this book
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Get in touch
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It’s a New World, One with AI Assistants, and You’re Invited
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Introduction
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How ChatGPT came to be, from NLP to LLMs
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The new paradigm, programming with natural language
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About this book
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Who this book is for
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Evolution of programming languages
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How to use this book
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Prompt Strategy
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Introduction
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Where you are
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Guidelines for how to prompt efficiently
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Prompt strategy for web development
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Prompt strategy for data science
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Validate the solution
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Summary
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Tools of the Trade: Introducing Our AI Assistants
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Introduction
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Understanding Copilot
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Understanding ChatGPT
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Summary
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Build the Appearance of Our App with HTML and Copilot
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Introduction
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Business problem: e-commerce
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Page structure
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Add AI assistance to our page structure
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Challenge: vary the prompt
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Use case: build a front for an e-commerce
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Assignment
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Challenge
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Quiz
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Summary
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Style the App with CSS and Copilot
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Introduction
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Business problem: e-commerce
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Problem and data domain
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Breaking the problem down into features
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Prompting strategy
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CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets
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Assignment
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Solution
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Use case: style the e-commerce app
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Challenge
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Quiz
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Summary
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Add Behavior with JavaScript
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Introduction
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Business problem: e-commerce
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Problem and data domain
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Breaking the problem down into features
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Prompting strategy
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Adding JavaScript
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Challenge
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Use case: adding behavior
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Assignment
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Solution
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Summary
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Support Multiple Viewports Using Responsive Web Layouts
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Introduction
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Business problem: e-commerce
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Problem and data domain
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Breaking the problem down into features
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Prompting strategy
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Viewports
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Use case: make our product gallery responsive
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Assignment
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Solution
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Build a Backend with Web APIs
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Introduction
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Business domain: e-commerce
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Problem and data domain
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Feature breakdown
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Prompt strategy
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Web APIs
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Creating a Web API with Python and Flask
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Use case: a Web API for an e-commerce site
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Assignment
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Solution
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Challenge
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Summary
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Augment Web Apps with AI Services
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Introduction
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Business domain, e-commerce
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Problem and data domain
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Feature breakdown
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Prompt strategy
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Creating a model
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Coming up with a plan
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Converting the model to ONNX
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Loading the ONNX model in JavaScript
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Assignment: Build a REST API in JavaScript that consumes the model
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Solution
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Summary
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Maintaining Existing Codebases
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Introduction
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Prompt strategy
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Different types of maintenance
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The maintenance process
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Addressing a bug
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Adding a new feature
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Improving performance
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Improving maintainability
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Challenge
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Updating an existing e-commerce site
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Assignment
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Knowledge check
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Summary
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Data Exploration with ChatGPT
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Introduction
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Business problem
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Problem and data domain
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Feature breakdown
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Prompting strategy
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Data exploration of the Amazon review dataset using the free version of ChatGPT
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Data exploration of the Amazon review dataset using ChatGPT-4o
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Assignment
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Challenge
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Summary
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Building a Classification Model with ChatGPT
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Introduction
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Business problem
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Problem and data domain
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Breaking the problem down into features
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Prompting strategy
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Building a sentiment analysis model to accurately classify Amazon reviews using the free version of ChatGPT
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Building a sentiment analysis model to accurately classify Amazon reviews using ChatGPT-4 or ChatGPT Plus
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Assignment
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Challenge
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Summary
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Building a Regression Model for Customer Spend with ChatGPT
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Introduction
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Business problem
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Problem and data domain
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Breaking the problem down into features
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Prompting strategy
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Building a simple linear regression model to predict the “Yearly Amount Spent” by customers using the free version of ChatGPT
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Learning simple linear regression using ChatGPT Plus
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Assignment
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Challenge
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Summary
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Building an MLP Model for Fashion-MNIST with ChatGPT
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Introduction
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Business problem
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Problem and data domain
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Breaking the problem down into features
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Prompting strategy
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Building an MLP model to accurately classify the Fashion-MNIST images using the free version of ChatGPT
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Assignment
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Challenge
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Summary
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Building a CNN Model for CIFAR-10 with ChatGPT
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Introduction
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Business problem
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Problem and data domain
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Breaking the problem down into features
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Prompting strategy
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Building a CNN model to accurately classify the CIFAR-10 images using the free version of ChatGPT
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Assignment
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Challenge
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Summary
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Unsupervised Learning: Clustering and PCA
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Introduction
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Breaking the problem down into features
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Prompt strategy
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Customer segmentation
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Product clustering for an e-commerce project
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Reflection on prompts for this use case
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Assignment
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Solution
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Summary
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Machine Learning with Copilot
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Introduction
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GitHub Copilot Chat in your IDE
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Dataset overview
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Steps for data exploration
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Prompt strategy
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Your initial data exploration prompt: Prompt 1, setting the high-level context
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Step 1: Load the dataset
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Step 2: Inspect the data
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Step 3: Summary statistics
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Step 4: Explore categorical variables
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Step 5: Distribution of ratings
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Step 6: Temporal analysis
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Step 7: Review length analysis
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Step 8: Correlation analysis
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Step 9: Additional exploratory analysis
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Step 10: Text Preprocessing
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Step 11: Word Frequency Analysis
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Step 12: Sentiment Score Calculation
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Step 13: Visualize the Distribution of Sentiment Scores
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Step 14: Analyze the Relationship Between Sentiment Score and Other Variables
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Assignment
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Solution
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Summary
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Regression with Copilot Chat
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Introduction
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Regression
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Dataset overview
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Prompt strategy
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Evaluate the model
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Assignment
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Summary
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Regression with Copilot Suggestions
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Introduction
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Dataset overview
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Prompt strategy
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Start coding with Copilot’s help
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Assignment
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Summary
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Increasing Efficiency with GitHub Copilot
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Introduction
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Code generation and automation
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Copilot commands
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Debugging and troubleshooting
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Code review and optimization techniques
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Workspace
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Visual Studio Code lookup
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Terminal
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Assignment
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Challenge
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Quiz
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Summary
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Agents in Software Development
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Introduction
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What are agents?
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Simpler agents versus agents using AI
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Simpler agents
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Advanced conversations
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Autonomous agents
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Assignment
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Challenge
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Quiz
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Summary
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References
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Conclusion
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Conclusion
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Recap of the book
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Major conclusions
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What’s next
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At last
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index
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Index

Debugging and troubleshooting

Being able to debug and troubleshoot code is an important skill to have. When you develop code, it seldom does what you need it to do the first time. You need to be able to debug and troubleshoot code to figure out what’s wrong with it. The same applies if you have a reported bug; you need to be able to diagnose at what point it goes wrong.

Copilot can help, and a good approach is using Copilot chat and asking it to add support for debugging and troubleshooting.

The following is a piece of sample code you’ve been given. It’s a REST API in the framework Flask for Python. It’s working code, but it might not be so easy to work with from a debugging and troubleshooting standpoint:

from flask import Flask, jsonify, request
import sqlite3
app = Flask(__name__)
# Create a connection to the database
conn = sqlite3.connect('products.db')
c = conn.cursor()
# Create a table for products if it doesn't exist
c...

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