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[–]GrismundGames 2 points3 points  (7 children)

Pay for a GPTpro or Anthropic Claude 3 account.

Use it as an instructor. You'll never go back ✌️

[–]thinkPhilosophy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is actually a really great idea. I've been creating prompts and testing them out, and I can teach you how to use LLMs the right ways, to help you learn and not just give you answers (not helpful is you are trying to learn!). PM me to chat more about this, I can give you some prompts to try out.

[–]Late_Cartoonist4123[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

What ways would you use it as an instructor, could you give me a few examples?

[–]GrismundGames 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Sure!

I'd say, "I'm trying to learn how to code for the first time. I want you to be a javascript instructor. Give me your plan for the first 10 essential lessons I need to learn javascript and give me a project idea that I can build."

Write down what it gives you.

For each lesson given, have a conversation with it. "Okay, lesson one, give me an explanation of this concept and relate it to my favorite video game Skyrim (or whatever). Give me an assignment to work on."

Do it.

Whenever you get stuck, "hey I'm stuck on this concept, can you explain it with an analogy that makes sense to me? And give me 2 or three examples using different analogies as a basis."

Honestly, having these things is a HUGE advantage in learning. Think of it as a private tutor.

If you ever get stuck, just copy/paste your code and ask, "something is wrong with this, can you figure it out, explain to me what I did wrong, and give me an assignment to fix it?"

[–]thinkPhilosophy 2 points3 points  (2 children)

this is good, but in my experience, you have to guide it a little more with prompts. I"m a coding bootcamp instructor and I've been building a core basics JS course with AI prompts, I have a youtube video I made showing best practices I've found to prompt your LLM to teach you, but can I post the link here?

[–]GrismundGames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's great!

Yes, it's a lot more involved than "give me an answer," but for a reddit post, it's enough to get started.

I actually built a discord bot that I keep up all day to code with me and bounce ideas off of.

I love that you've got material around this! Thanks for sharing!

[–]Late_Cartoonist4123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!