Reigning in GPT-4 to Tutor Java Programming Pupils and Students Instead of just Providing Answer Algorithms – a Prototype
Herman Martinus, Laurie L. Butgereit · 2023
The popular press (and the academic press to some extent) look at the newly released GPT-4 language model and ask "What’s it good forƒ" Teachers and lecturers, however, look at GPT-4 and panic saying "Pupils and students will cheat by having GPT-4 do their homework for them!". Even tech employers look at their tech-test gate keepers which screen applicants for tech positions and wonder if potential employees are having GPT-4 generate the answers to their tech-tests. These are all valid questions to ask. This paper takes another approach. This paper asks the question "Can GPT-4 be configured to tutor people without just providing complete answers to questionsƒ" Specifically, this paper looks at tutoring pupils and students in the Java programming language. The research question is "Can GPT-4 be configured to help people learn Java programmingƒ" Can GPT-4 be configured to assist pupils and students to learn how to program in Java without just generating the answer algorithms for the pupils and studentsƒ