GENERATIVE AI-POWERED ASSISTANT FOR DEVELOPERS: accelerate software development with Amazon Q Developer

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Publisher
Packt Publishing Ltd
Publication Date
2024
Language
English

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Leverage Amazon Q Developer to boost productivity and maximize efficiency by accelerating software development life cycle tasks Key Features First book on the market to thoroughly explore all of Amazon Q Developer's features Gain an understanding of Amazon Q Developer's capabilities across the software development life cycle through real-world examples Build apps with Amazon Q Developer by auto-generating code in various languages within supported IDEs Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description Many developers face the challenge of managing repetitive tasks and maintaining productivity. This book will help you tackle both these challenges with Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered assistant designed to optimize coding and streamline workflows. This book takes you through the setup and customization of Amazon Q Developer, demonstrating how to leverage its capabilities for auto-code generation, code explanation, and transformation across multiple IDEs and programming languages. You'll learn to use Amazon Q Developer to enhance coding experiences, generate accurate code references, and ensure security by scanning for vulnerabilities. The book also shows you how to use Amazon Q Developer for AWS-related tasks, including solution building, applying architecture best practices, and troubleshooting errors. Each chapter provides practical insights and step-by-step guidance to help you fully integrate this powerful tool into your development process. You'll get to grips with effortless code implementation, explanation, transformation, and documentation, helping you create applications faster and improve your development experience. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered Amazon Q Developer to accelerate your software development lifecycle, improve code quality, and build applications faster and more efficiently. What you will learn Understand the importance of generative AI-powered assistants in developers' daily work Enable Amazon Q Developer for IDEs and with AWS services to leverage code suggestions Customize Amazon Q Developer to align with organizational coding standards Utilize Amazon Q Developer for code explanation, transformation, and feature development Understand code references and scan for code security issues using Amazon Q Developer Accelerate building solutions and troubleshooting errors on AWS Who this book is for This book is for coders, software developers, application builders, data engineers, and technical resources using AWS services looking to leverage Amazon Q Developer's features to enhance productivity and accelerate business outcomes. Basic coding skills are needed to understand the concepts covered in this book.

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9781835081204

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Generative AI-Powered Assistant
Chapter 1: Introduction to Generative AI-Powered Assistants
What is generative AI?
Common challenges faced by developers/builders
Generative AI-powered assistants for developers/builders
How developers/builders benefit from assistants
Types of assistants for developers/builders
Summary
References
Chapter 2: Introducing and Setting Up Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Q nomenclature
Amazon Q Developer basics
Amazon Q Developer features
Auto-code generation
Code customizations
Code transformations
Code explanation, optimization, and update
Code feature development
Reference tracking
Security scanning
Integration with AWS services
Amazon Q Developer tiers
Amazon Q Developer free tier
Amazon Q Developer Pro tier
Amazon Q Developer setup for third-party IDEs
VS Code
JetBrains
Visual Studio
Amazon Q Developer setup for command line
Amazon Q Developer setup for AWS coding environments
Amazon SageMaker Studio
Amazon EMR Studio
JupyterLab
AWS Glue Studio
AWS Lambda
Build on AWS with support from Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Q permissions
Conversational Q&A capability
Troubleshoot AWS console errors
Troubleshoot networking issues
Optimal selection of Amazon EC2 instances
Assist with AWS Support cases
Assist during DevOps process in Amazon CodeCatalyst
Summary
References
Part 2: Generate Code Recommendations
Chapter 3: Understanding Auto-Code Generation Techniques
What is a prompt?
Single-line prompts for auto-code generation
Multi-line prompts for auto-code generation
Chain-of-thought prompts for auto-code generation
Chat with code assistant for auto-code generation
Common building methods of auto-code generation
Single-line code completion
Full function generation
Block completion
Line-by-line recommendations
Cross-reference existing code
Generating sample data
Writing unit tests
Explaining and documenting code
Updating existing code
Feature development
Code transformation
Summary
References
Chapter 4: Boost Coding Efficiency for Python and Java with Auto-code Generation
An overview of the use case for weather data analysis
Application requirements
weather data analysis
Prerequisites to access the OpenWeatherMap API
Python auto-code generation using Amazon Q Developer for weather data analysis
Solution blueprint for weather data analysis
Use-case summary
Java auto code generation using Amazon Q Developer for weather data analysis
Solution blueprint for weather data analysis
Use-case summary
Summary
References
Chapter 5: Boost Coding Efficiency for C and C++ with Auto-Code Generation

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