Even having someone say, "I recommend something simple like Python or PHP to start with" would be immensely valuable to someone like me who's a total novice who wouldn't even know which language to start with (or which languages are best suited for specific projects or which languages are even out there).
Also, I'm laughing that you called those simple. I'm just proud that I remember basic HTML from Myspace lol.
While I might be the exception to the rule because kids know WAY more than we used to when we were their age, we also don't know what we don't know.
ChatGPT could help with figuring out which language to use, but in my experience with using it to generate answers, I have to constantly fact check everything it generates because it gets things wrong sometimes.
Yep simple is relative of course. ChatGPT gets it wrong sometimes, that's where you can reach out to humans and ask for help on a specific problem. But it'll do a good job of steering you in the right direction.
ChatGPT is great for me - because I have 13 years of experience. But I find that new devs don't know what to ask. If you're using it like an encyclopedia and asking it to tell you about how things work, it can be great - but people also just grab code from it - and will ultimately not really learn what they are doing and why.
Kids don't know anything haha. They memorize how to use the UI of their apps but mostly don't have any conscious connection to how anything works. There's no model. People don't know what they don't know. So - I think that working with an expert guide is pretty smart. I learned all this stuff on my own - with no network or anything and while it worked out... it wasn't smart.
Even having someone say, "I recommend something simple like Python or PHP to start with" would be immensely valuable to someone like me who's a total novice who wouldn't even know which language to start with (or which languages are best suited for specific projects or which languages are even out there).
Also, I'm laughing that you called those simple. I'm just proud that I remember basic HTML from Myspace lol.
While I might be the exception to the rule because kids know WAY more than we used to when we were their age, we also don't know what we don't know.
ChatGPT could help with figuring out which language to use, but in my experience with using it to generate answers, I have to constantly fact check everything it generates because it gets things wrong sometimes.
Yep simple is relative of course. ChatGPT gets it wrong sometimes, that's where you can reach out to humans and ask for help on a specific problem. But it'll do a good job of steering you in the right direction.
ChatGPT is great for me - because I have 13 years of experience. But I find that new devs don't know what to ask. If you're using it like an encyclopedia and asking it to tell you about how things work, it can be great - but people also just grab code from it - and will ultimately not really learn what they are doing and why.
Kids don't know anything haha. They memorize how to use the UI of their apps but mostly don't have any conscious connection to how anything works. There's no model. People don't know what they don't know. So - I think that working with an expert guide is pretty smart. I learned all this stuff on my own - with no network or anything and while it worked out... it wasn't smart.