Build Your Personal Brand with GitHub Copilot — Full Course for Students

Go from zero to a live portfolio website using the GitHub Copilot app — no coding
experience required. This is the complete 10-episode student series in one video,
covering the Student Developer Pack, prompting, Git and GitHub Pages, context and
tokens, MCP servers, skills and agent personas, bring-your-own-model, Bootstrap,
and controlling Copilot from your phone.

In this course, you'll learn:
→ How to claim the GitHub Student Developer Pack and install the Copilot app + VS Code
→ How to turn a resume PDF into a real portfolio website by prompting, not coding
→ What Git, commits, branches, diffs, and pull requests actually are — explained on a lightboard
→ How to publish your site free on GitHub Pages and redeploy every time you edit
→ How to control Copilot with Interactive, Plan, and Autopilot modes
→ How context windows and tokens work, and how to use /init, /context, and /compact
→ How to extend Copilot with built-in tools and MCP servers like Playwright
→ How to build a reusable agent skill and install skills from a plugin marketplace
→ How to bring your own model with Microsoft Foundry and the Azure for Students credit
→ How to run a Copilot session from your phone with remote control and a QR code

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome — what you'll build in this series
1:05 Claiming the GitHub Student Developer Pack
7:15 Your first prompt: a Hello World site
10:45 EPISODE 2 — Build a portfolio website from a resume
14:23 Answering Copilot's questions about structure and style
18:37 Resume preview, school colors, and dark mode
23:05 EPISODE 3 — Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages
23:42 Version control explained: diffs, commits, branches, merging
32:56 Creating a repository and pushing your site
47:49 Deploying with GitHub Pages
54:11 EPISODE 4 — Copilot settings, sessions, and modes
56:23 Interactive mode, Plan mode, and Autopilot mode
59:33 EPISODE 5 — Context and tokens
1:02:53 Adding project files and running /init
1:05:52 Shrinking your session with /compact
1:06:40 EPISODE 6 — Tools and MCP servers
1:11:08 Installing and using the Playwright MCP server
1:15:33 EPISODE 7 — Skills, agent personas, and marketplaces
1:23:50 Turning a workflow into a reusable skill
1:30:22 Adding a plugin marketplace
1:37:02 EPISODE 8 — Bring your own model
1:40:43 Using the Azure MCP to create a Foundry resource
1:47:48 Connecting Foundry as a model provider
1:51:50 EPISODE 9 — Modernize the site with Bootstrap
1:54:05 Sticky navbar, animated cards, and shadows
1:59:31 EPISODE 10 — Control Copilot from your phone
2:01:51 Remote control and the QR code handoff
2:04:29 Back at the laptop — the finished feature

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