ChatGPT - How Long Till They Realize I’m a Robot?

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I tried it first on December 2nd... ...and slowly the meaning of it started to sink in. It's January 1st and as the new year begins, my future has never felt so hazy. It helps me write code. At my new company I'm writing golang, which is new for me, and one day on a whim I think "hmmm maybe ChatGPT will give me some ideas about the library I need to use." Lo-and-behold it knew the library. It wrote example code. It explained each section in just enough detail. I'm excited....It assists my users. I got a question about Dockerfiles in my teams oncall channel. "Hmmm I don't know the answer to this either"....ChatGPT did. It knew the commands to run. It knew details of how it worked. It explained it better and faster than I could have. Now I'm nervous....It writes my code for me. Now I'm hearing how great Github Copilot is - and it's built by OpenAI too...ok I guess I should give it a shot. I install it, and within minutes it'
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Undergraduate Computer Science Assignments

Hey all!

This page will contain links to all of my assignments, which I will post along my journey through to my degree in Computer Science at University of Calgary.  Right now, I'm working with Java and SPARC assembly language programming, and I hope this page grows in content quickly.  Keep checking back for more programs for your pleasure.  Also, feedback is always welcome from anyone who's interested in IT, or in the field.

First Year Java Assignments

Card Match Program

Binary Search Tree For a Text File

Alien chapter 7, Absolute Java solution

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