Here are 5 skills coding students should practise now.
GitHub’s Sept 10 update highlighted Jira integration, adaptive CLI orchestration, new VS Code agent automation and wider JetBrains controls.
Learn acceptance criteria, scope and expected outcomes before asking an AI agent to edit code.
Branches, commits and pull requests matter even more when an AI assistant can change many files quickly.
Run tests, reproduce edge cases, inspect logs and check security assumptions. Plausible code is not automatically correct code.
Modern development connects issue trackers, IDEs, terminals, repositories, testing and deployment—not just an editor window.
Learn the concept, attempt the problem, then use AI for planning, review and debugging.
Read the full learner briefing on Forsk Coding School.