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Easy Hacks For Code Generation Using ChatGPT For Developers

In this article, you will find useful hacks for code generation using ChatGPT. Some of these include writing simple codes, fixing codes, code debugging, writing code examples, and exploring libraries.
Gurpreet Saini
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Easy Hacks For Code Generation Using ChatGPT For Developers
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Table of content: 

  • Writing Simple Codes
  • Code Debugging and Fixing Codes
  • Writing Code Examples
  • Explore Libraries and Resources
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ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a powerful tool that has made writing codes in popular languages very easy. Code generation using ChatGPT is one of the best features of the chatbot. You can use the Artificial Intelligence-powered chatbot to increase the productivity of your work. In this way, you can grab tons of opportunities in the field of software development, while competing with other professionals in the market.

In this article, we will explore some ideas for code generation using ChatGPT which makes the chatbot a valuable tool for developers. You can ace coding if you learned top AI-generated solutions.

Writing Simple Codes

You can use ChatGPT prompts for code generation and code completion. Look at the example below and see how code generation using ChatGPT can be made easy.

We used the prompt:

"write HTML code for an index.html page that says "Welcome to Unstop: India's best hiring platform""

Step 1: Set up the basic structure of the HTML page.

  HTML SNIPPET IS HERE

Step 2: Add the content within the body tag.

  HTML SNIPPET IS HERE

The simple prompt saved a lot of time which we would otherwise invest in writing an accurate code manually.

You can use some more prompts to have ChatGPT write a piece of code for you. Let us see some examples:

"act as a human programmer in [enter the name of the programming language] and write a code where [write the description of the things you want the program to do]"

Code Debugging and Fixing Codes

Sometimes you may have a code but there could be many problems with it. The code may not run properly which leads to having your time wasted. Here, ChatGPT can come to your rescue and help you to fix the code.

You just have to feed the code into the user request and ask the chatbot to find the errors and coding issues to fix the malicious code. The chatbot also offers help with code refactoring. Let's see how you can do it in ChatGPT:

"act as a programmer and find the error in the following code

<enter the code>"

"act as a programmer and refactor the following code to be more accurate

<enter the code>"

In this way, ChatGPT can be a valuable tool for software development as it can provide you with different coding techniques.

Writing Code Examples

One of the things with ChatGPT is that it is not very good at optimizing codes. It can only analyze the pieces of code and pinpoint the error as we saw above in the fixing code section. However, experienced programmers use another feature of ChatGPT instead. This advanced feature is used for writing code examples.

If you have snippets of code in front, you can determine how you can optimize your existing code. You can study how ChatGPT wrote the code and follow the example to improve your own code. Let's see how you should undertake this AI-Assisted code-generation process:

First, you can describe to the AI-powered chatbot about the programming language and the user input. For example, you can use prompt 1:

"generate a PHP function called paraphrase_article which will be passed a URL to an article on a hiring platform site unstop.com"

In this above prompt, we described the programming language to be used and the input that is required for it.

You can further refine this prompt by creating yet another prompt 2, such as:

"in the paraphrase_article, access the contents of the web page at unstop.com. Now you use the library from within PHP and any other libraries necessary, extract the following information: the main body of the article, the H1 title, the H2, titles, and the ToC"

The AI-generated code in response will return the example snippets of code once the processing is complete.

The code snippet for prompt 1:

Step 1: Create a functional code snippet paraphrase_article and define a parameter for the URL.

Step 2: Within the function, you can use PHP's built-in functions to fetch the contents of the article from the provided URL.

Step 3: Implement the logic to paraphrase the article as per your requirements. This could involve using string manipulation functions, regular expressions, or natural language processing libraries to modify the content.

Step 4: You can then call the paraphrase_article function and pass the URL of the article on the unstop.com hiring platform site.

The code snippet for prompt 2:

Step 1: Include any necessary libraries or dependencies that will help with parsing the HTML content. One popular library for this purpose is PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser, which allows you to easily extract information from HTML documents. You can download it from the official website or use a package manager like Composer to install it.

Step 2: Within the paraphrase_article function, use the library to fetch the contents of the web page at unstop.com using the URL. Then, parse the HTML content to extract the required information.

Step 3: You can then call the paraphrase_article function, passing the URL of the article on unstop.com, and storing the returned result in a variable.

Using this example of code, you can create effective and efficient novel codes. The code quality of the codes provided by ChatGPT is usually high and error-free.

Explore Libraries and Resources

As a programmer, your work will be simplified if you can utilize libraries and resources. A library for code templates allows a programmer to access the body of a code. In this way, a programmer can use pre-written codes, without having to write a new code every time. As a result of this, it saves them a considerable amount of time and energy.

The biggest advantages of these libraries are that the programmers can trust the body of code. They do not have to test a code every single time.

You can do code generation using ChatGPT to help you find libraries and resources. ChatGPT can provide you with a list of AI libraries. Along with this, you can check which libraries are free and come with open-source access.

Additionally, you can also ask ChatGPT to provide you with the details of the usage limit. As a result of this, you will be able to use the libraries to write multiple codes, without having to worry about subscription payment or licensing.

ChatGPT can further allow you to refine your search for the relevant libraries and resources. For instance, you can use the following prompts to see how to can locate relevant libraries for the codes you want to write:

To find the list of libraries:

"suggest 10 different open-source AI libraries that can be used for generating codes for a web page"

Filtering the list of libraries:

"which among the following AI libraries can be used for any PHP?"

Narrowing down the libraries further:

"suggest which library would work for creating summaries of web page news articles"

In this article, we discussed how you can do code generation using ChatGPT, an invaluable tool for software developers. The AI-powered tool can help you write codes, improve the existing codes, and debug them. Thereby, it is an easy programming solution for software developers. All you need to do is use simple prompts and use response codes for various potential applications.

Hope this article was informative. We will continue to bring more interesting articles on the latest technology. So, stay tuned to Unstop!

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Gurpreet Saini
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