ChatGPT programming education

[Shawn Gossman]

Would you let ChatGPT teach you how to be a programmer if you were first starting out?

Or do you feel AI isn't as advanced to do such a thing yet?

 

[Cedric]

ChatGPT is a great tool, but it often makes mistakes. Always refer to the official online guides.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

Would you let ChatGPT teach you how to be a programmer if you were first starting out?

Or do you feel AI isn't as advanced to do such a thing yet?

I think you need to learn to break down complex problems and practice - problem solving is essential to being a productive programmer

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I think you need to learn to break down complex problems and practice - problem solving is essential to being a productive programmer

You're right.

I use it for that but I remember it makes mistakes.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

You're right.

I use it for that but I remember it makes mistakes.

There’s mo one size fits all approach to learning really - reviewing examples can be helpful provided you don’t just blindly trust it

 

[Mike30]

ChatGPT can be great if you know how to fix the errors.
I would suggest to use trusted/proven tutorial sites. And a little ChatGPT. You can find your sweet spot as you go.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

ChatGPT can be great if you know how to fix the errors.
I would suggest to use trusted/proven tutorial sites. And a little ChatGPT. You can find your sweet spot as you go.

At the end of the day, the official coding reference sites are probably my best friends, right?

 

[Mike30]

At the end of the day, the official coding reference sites are probably my best friends, right?

I would say it's a combination, ChatGPT is pretty good explaining things too.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

I would say it's a combination, ChatGPT is pretty good explaining things too.

and google especially leading you to stackoverflow where members may experience issues

copy paste your error message and i guarantee you a member likely has a solution

 

[Mike30]

and google especially leading you to stackoverflow where members may experience issues

copy paste your error message and i guarantee you a member likely has a solution

That's has been number one of many of my error/learning sources: stackoverflow

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I get one stackoverflow a lot when I have errors in code. It has definitely helped me out a bit!

 

[gwolf666]

As much as I would like chatgpt to teach me programming, I definitely couldn't teach something so complex and chatgpt itself would tell you that you need to study with a professional who knows how to explain it to you.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

As much as I would like chatgpt to teach me programming, I definitely couldn't teach something so complex and chatgpt itself would tell you that you need to study with a professional who knows how to explain it to you.

You definitely couldn’t teach something so complex?
Or is definitely couldn’t teach something so complex?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I am always trying to improve my investigative techniques. For my job, it's an important skill to have and can essentially be job security.

Sometimes, I'll research techniques in financial investigations or open-source intelligence and I can't quite wrap my head around something in relation to it. The language of the issue is what confuses me.

I can use AI to dumb it down for me and give me examples. I've found this to be really useful, and it gives me those "ah ha" moments.

So, I kind of use the same concept for programming with AI. I don't ask it to teach me how to do it because, as some of you mentioned, it can give the wrong information. I just ask it to dumb down the explanation of terms and operators and stuff like that with examples that match what I want to use the code for. That's how I find it useful, if that makes any sense at all.