Open AI’s ChatGPT has loads of applications and being a generative language model, it has been fed with hundreds of gigabytes of publicly available text data. It is not an exaggeration to say you create content or educate yourself on any topic imaginable with AI tools like ChatGPT.
One of its popular applications is creating text content and code since it has been trained in pattern recognition and programming language modeling. This enables the tool to create code in all major programming languages when given a natural language prompt. This makes ChatGPT quite useful for people who are learning to code as well as for developers looking for a fix for their particular issue.
While the tool certainly cannot whole applications and other solutions by itself, it can be useful in a crunch for developers as well as students.
Now let’s see how you can use ChatGPT to generate code for simple applications for learning purposes.
Creating Python Code Using ChatGPT
To use the tool, make sure you are signed up and logged in to ChatGPT using this link. Once logged in, you can now send prompts to generate code. Let’s now start with a code for Python to sort words in lexicographical order.
Make sure to give a clear prompt that describes your requirements for an accurate result. For this case, I have given the prompt as “Write a Python program to sort words in a sentence to lexicographical order”
Upon receiving the prompt, the AI will give you a code that you can copy and use as you wish, like this.
You will also get an explanation of how the program works and how to run it as well, making it a useful tool, particularly for learners.
Generating PHP Code Using PHP
Now let us generate a code in PHP. For this example, let us check if two given strings are anagrams.
For this, I am giving the prompt “Write a program to check two given strings are Anagram in PHP”
The code along with the reason for each part of it is given in the answer. You also get a text explanation of the working of the code below, like this.
Writing JavaScript Code Using ChatGPT
Now, let us see an example with JavaScript and for this, I am going to request the AI tool to write a JavaScript code to identify whether the given word is palindrome or not. For this example, the prompt I am giving is “Write a JavaScript code to find if the given string is a palindrome”.
The output given by ChatGPT is shown below.
You can also see an example of how to use the code with sample strings along with an explanation of how the code works as you saw in the previous examples.
In such a manner, you can generate AI-assisted code for many use cases using ChatGPT.
What Programming Languages can you Generate Code with ChatGPT?
As of the time of publication of this article, ChatGPT has been trained in popular programming languages like Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, Ruby, PHP, and Swift. While this is certainly a useful application of the AI tool, the quality and accuracy of the code generated by ChatGPT solely depend on the amount of data it has been trained on, making its reliability uncertain.
You should always review the code generated by ChatGPT with a skilled human developer before using the code generated by the AI tool for live projects.
To know more about how ChatGPT works, check out this article for a detailed explanation. Know any fun tricks using ChatGPT that improve your productivity? Let us know in the comments.
