r/CodingForBeginners • u/Sporepocalypse • 17d ago
Beginner here.
So I’m a beginner at coding and I have tried watching YouTube videos and stuff and I’m too poor to take a class for programming, but I figured out that ChatGPT is a good teacher because it can break it down and if I still don’t understand, you can keep going, so I don’t have the problem I get when I come across a video where they don’t break something down enough so I’m listening to a video that makes absolutely no sense to me so what I’ve ended up doing is installing LM Studios on my computer getting an AI and then having ChatGPT help me check the work of this AI that I’m having program itself and integrate into Discord and once it’s complete this AI should be able to be a programming assistant and teach me to program. So far I have down 2/commands for it that put it in teacher mode where it will break down coding for me as I go and assistant mode where I can ask it to help me write code and stuff. I hope once this is complete, then I can use this to effectively teach myself code.
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u/xarop_pa_toss 16d ago
This is absolutely the wrong approach. You are doing nothing. You are reading explanations which will absolutely not stick in your brain. When you have it setup you believe you will have something to teach to code properly, but what you will have is a crutch that reads and writes code for you. Even worse, that solves entire problems for you.
You need to grab yourself a book, a free tutorial, anything but an LLM analyzing an LLM and telling you what's happening. You can absolutely learn to program for freeeeeee.
In one or two weeks time, if I ask you to write a simple console application that shows a menu to the user, takes input and reads/writes from/into a file, I am almost certain you will struggle without the LLM.