Copilot comes free for students through GitHubs student developer pack[0]. I’ve gotten to try it out and I’ve found it to just be a great cheating tool in my classes.
Most assignments done by students are basic problems that have been solved tens of thousands of times and could be found everywhere all over GitHub.
Assignments where you have to write algorithms like bubblesort or binary search are as easy as typing the function signature and then having copilot fill in the rest.
Therefore, using copilot as a student will make you worse at programming, since you are robbed of the fundamental thinking skills that come from solving these problems.
Most assignments done by students are basic problems that have been solved tens of thousands of times and could be found everywhere all over GitHub.
Assignments where you have to write algorithms like bubblesort or binary search are as easy as typing the function signature and then having copilot fill in the rest.
Therefore, using copilot as a student will make you worse at programming, since you are robbed of the fundamental thinking skills that come from solving these problems.
[0] https://education.github.com/pack