Teaching Assistant GPT
I recently started teaching my daughter how to code in Python. We started with the basics and even though I am not an expert in Python, being a software engineer, gave us the capability to thread with some confidence together. I used an old book from my high school days, with simple assignments designed to be solved in Pascal. Regardless, the assignments are still usable for teaching. However after some time, I realized that every time I would leave my student to fly solo, she would reach to ChatGPT for the solution. Of course, I would review the solutions and we would discuss them. Some solutions were good, some were good enough, and some did not work at all. Consequently in some of the cases, we searched for improvements together, whilst me explaining pieces of Computer Architecture along the way, just so she understands what is happening under the hood. Things moved along nicely. Now, I am facing a conundrum: Should I consider this cheating, if a student is asking ChatGPT for ...