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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Code Comprehension with LLMs

  • Prompt engineering strategies for code explanation and walkthroughs
  • Navigating unfamiliar codebases and projects
  • Analyzing control flow, dependencies, and architectural design

Refactoring for Enhanced Maintainability

  • Identifying code smells, dead code, and architectural anti-patterns
  • Restructuring functions and modules for greater clarity
  • Leveraging LLMs to suggest improved naming conventions and design patterns

Enhancing Performance and Reliability

  • Detecting inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities with AI assistance
  • Recommending more efficient algorithms or libraries
  • Refactoring I/O operations, database queries, and API integrations

Automating Code Documentation

  • Generating function and method-level comments and summaries
  • Drafting and updating README files directly from codebases
  • Creating Swagger and OpenAPI documentation with LLM support

Toolchain Integration

  • Utilizing VS Code extensions and Copilot Labs for documentation tasks
  • Integrating GPT or Claude into Git pre-commit hooks
  • Embedding documentation and linting processes into CI pipelines

Managing Legacy and Multi-Language Codebases

  • Reverse-engineering older or undocumented systems
  • Cross-language refactoring (e.g., migrating from Python to TypeScript)
  • Case studies and pair-AI programming demonstrations

Ethics, Quality Assurance, and Review

  • Validating AI-generated changes and mitigating hallucination risks
  • Best practices for peer review when incorporating LLMs
  • Ensuring reproducibility and adherence to coding standards

Summary and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript
  • Knowledge of software architecture principles and code review workflows
  • A foundational understanding of the operational mechanisms of large language models

Target Audience

  • Backend engineers
  • DevOps teams
  • Senior developers and technical leads

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