Interacting with ChatGPT to Generate NR code

[craigcurtin]

Guys, more for the beginners/middle range guys here - but here is a series of interactions i did with ChatGPT that ended up with a great result and what looks like pretty good code to me

This took almost no time - other than cutting and pasting the results and then doing a deploy each time to check

Its quite unbelievable how forgiving it is and also how well it allows you to drill down on a problem through a series of steps rather than having to know it all at the start

Very informative and the description of what each of the code segments does is quite informative - a good tool to send beginners to when they ask some basic question - and something that would give code that is quite similar each time

Craig

[Steve-Mcl]

You should prompt it to not use var

[craigcurtin]

I knew there would be a stickler somewhere !

Good Pickup

Craig

[dougle03]

I use 'var' a lot, is there a reason not to use it?

[Colin]

It is better to use const or let as appropriate, as it allows the interpreter to generate more efficient code and will trap some bugs that might otherwise get through.

[marcus-j-davies]

var is not scope aware
let is scope aware

const MyArrayOfArray = [
     [1,2,3],
     [4,5,6],
     [7,8,9]
]

for(var i = 0;i<MyArrayOfArray.length;i++) {

   const Collection = MyArrayOfArray[i]

   /* The below will also increment our first for loop (i is global) - Not good */
   for(var i = 0;i<Collection.length;i++) { 
    ...
   }
}

for(let i = 0;i<MyArrayOfArray.length;i++) {

   const Collection = MyArrayOfArray[i]

   /* This wont */
   for(let i = 0;i<Collection.length;i++) { 
    ...
   }
}