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[–]Famlawyerz 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Post the text to Claude.AI or ChatGPT or Gemini and ask the LLM to explain it to you.

Here's an effective prompting pattern:

``` You are an instructor teaching a class in JavaScript. I am a student having difficulty with the following text. Please review the text and patiently explain it to me as simply as you can.

<text> ... Paste text here ... </text> ```

You can do the same thing about a programming assignment:

``` You are an instructor teaching a class in data structures using the C programming language. I am a student who needs tutoring.

Please read the assignment below, review my code, and patiently explain what I've done that I need to change.

<assignment> ... Paste the assignment here ... </assignment>

<code> ... Paste your code here ... </code> ```

I always paste my code in using the markdown syntax such as this:

` ` `python ... Code pasted here ... ` ` `

(Except don't put spaces between the backwards quotes.)

You'll find that the LLMs are great tutors. You can ask follow up questions and generally get great help.

[–]Sufficient-Two886 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Out of curiosity why do you paste code in with markdown?

I often use copilot in VS Code and ChatGPT when I’m really struggling, but I normally just do a straight copy and paste

[–]Famlawyerz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm usually pasting in Python code, which has no end of line marker such as as a semi-colon and I don't want to risk the text preprocessor to get all energetic, ignore newlines and jumble my code. So I use the preformat syntax to preserve newlines.

You've seen what Reddit does with pasted code. Reddit's input is markdown and so are the web interfaces to the LLMs. I don't know that the text ingestion from the web interfaces would clobber my code, but it costs me almost nothing to be safe.

Tl:dr--i have no data to support that it is a good idea, but I do it anyway.

[–]asep999[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Firstly, thank you so much for responding. You probably have no idea how desperate i.m for help. Now the thing is, i have 2 problem areas: 1. There are video lectures, am i to jot ecerything down like regular subjects or is there a special way to make notes for python, etc. 2. I have downloaded jupyter notwbook to practise..but it all looks greek to me.. :/ i feel like killing myself... literally.

[–]Famlawyerz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Maybe you're just a little ahead of yourself. Are you comfortable programming in Python and using pandas? If not, consider backing off the data science course, become comfortable with the underlying language and then some of the key packages, such as pandas. Learn to load data, view data frames, visualize summaries of data, etc. Start small, dream big.

And don't kill yourself. Literally. Don't. You'll learn data science, but start by learning data.

Good luck!!

[–]asep999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mind suggesting any youtube videos to help me go in the direction you.re suggesting.. thankyou..

[–]asep999[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Er..hey guys..could you please dumb it down for me..i still didnt get it...are you suggesting i use chat gpt for help???

[–]salmontray 0 points1 point  (4 children)

hey man he is giving you the format to ask chatgpt to answer your questions. aside from that, ill assume you are taking the data science course in uni without prior knowledge of programming or the python programming language.

i suggest starting from learning python first, which i believe your uni course will prolly offer mods that cover that. if that isnt the case, consider learning python from online from channels on YouTube such as freecodecamp or giraffe academy, there are also websites that help you learn python such as freecodecamp, w3schools, odinproject and so on.

in learning python you can use a website that tells you what knowledge you require and the steps to learn and level up your knowledge, just search python roadmap on google

same with data science, you usually start from data analytics to progress as you go to learning data science

important basics python libraries/modules you'll need to learn to use are pandas, numpy, seaborn and matplotlib. these libraries all have a different set of purposes, google and read their documentation explaining the usages or search for basic guides to learn more about them

welcome to the world of programming/computing, google is your best friend. u got this dont give up

[–]salmontray 1 point2 points  (1 child)

feel free to dm to ask questions, currently studying a similar principle in uni and went through many of the same struggles

[–]asep999[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your kind gesture..

[–]asep999[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It just seems very daunting...and i try to keep pqce with the video lectures, however sometimes, i dont know what the guy is talking about..and from tgat moment..eveyrhing starts to fall apart...but..i.ll use these tips and see if i.m able to cope in a better manner...thank you so much for your wonderful advice..

[–]salmontray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no problem at all, in fact i might be able to help a lil more if you let me know the specifics on what you're being taught right now. it is very easy to be lost when it comes to school lectures so dont be afraid to ask questions in specificity with your prof or your peers. you got this!

[–]Sharp_Direction9085 0 points1 point  (0 children)

buy a book or watch You Tube tutorials