ChatGPT is a revolutionary large language model. It is capable to generate text on literally any subject. It has outstanding capabilities to generate code explanations. This can serve as an excellent tool to teach programming as “programming is learned by programming”.

Following this premise, I used ChatGPT to compile explanations for 100 Python exercises for complete beginners. One exercise per page. Following the exercise explanations a novice in Python can learn how to code. You can find the download link below.

How I created the tutorial

Obviously we need a set of Python exercises well suited for beginners. The Break The Ice With Python GitHub repository contains 100 simple Python questions with solutions.

Then, using the code snippets we ask ChatGPT to explain them line by line. To obtain good explanations suited for beginners we use the following prompt:

Explain me the following code snippet written in Python as explaining
it to someone who doesn't know programming in Python: <code_snippet>

after which the Python snippet followed. The output is then taken for further processing.

After this we stich all explanations into a final PDF document. One exercise per page. Every page follows the same structure having the following sections:

• Exercise N: the description of the exercise number N
• Code: The solution of the exercise
• ChatGPT Explanations: the ChatGPT explanation

Take a look and downlaod the document by clicking on the button below:

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