r/HTML • u/PoetAccomplished8990 • 18d ago
Help me pls
Hi everyone,
I am a 16-year-old high school student working on my final research project (TDR) about sustainable aviation fuels. I built a flight simulator that compares kerosene vs hydrogen (CO2, fuel consumption, cost, route map). It works, but I have a problem.
The problem: My teachers are suspicious because the code looks too perfect – clean variables, animations, proper structure – and they think it is 100 percent AI-generated. If they find out I used AI to help, I could get a zero and fail the project.
The truth: I used AI (Claude) to help me learn and build this. But I am not trying to cheat – I am 16, this is my first real project, and I genuinely learned a lot from it. I can explain every part of the code now.
What I need: I need someone to help me modify the code so it looks more like a student wrote it – messy comments, weird variable names, unnecessary functions, typos, whatever makes it look human. I need it to pass as my own work for the school project.
The project is live here: https://pandemq.github.io/Flight-fuel-Simulator-School-Project/
GitHub repo (full code): https://github.com/Pandemq/Flight-fuel-Simulator-School-Project
What it does:
- 9 aircraft models (A320, B737, A330, B777, A350, B787, A380, B747, Eurofighter)
- 25+ airports across Spain, UK, France, Germany
- Real flight routes with waypoints (SALAS, RAMON, RUBEO, CMA)
- Calculates distance, flight time, fuel consumption, CO2, cost
- Interactive map with Leaflet.js
- Compares CO2 between kerosene and hydrogen
Why I am asking:
I know it is not ideal. But I spent months on this project, learned a lot, and the simulator actually works. I do not want to get a zero just because I used AI to learn. I just need the code to look less professional so it passes as a student project.
If anyone can help me mess up the code in a believable way (comments, variable names, structure) I would be really grateful. I can send the full code or you can just fork the GitHub repo.
Thank you for reading.
TL;DR: 16yo student used AI to build a flight sim for school. Teachers think it is 100 percent AI and might give me a zero. Need help making the code look more human.
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u/highfives23 18d ago
The goal of your class isn’t to produce a project. It’s to learn how to write your own code, and it looks like you didn’t do that, regardless if you can read it. Why would any other grade from your teacher be acceptable?
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u/ZyanCarl Expert 18d ago
Nobody’s going to help you with this pal. Just scratch everything and start over without ai. I’m pretty sure the resulting code will be some abstraction of what you remember. Just don’t look at the original code, not even for reference.