Top 8 ChatGPT Prompts For Programmers with Examples

As we know, ChatGPT is very popular and powerful this year, it has many functions in addition to answering simple questions like writing essay, summarizing text, building resume, writing Excel formulas, translation and so on. so what benefits would ChatGPT give programmers? today I would like to introduce top 8 prompts which can help programmer ease their work.

1. Coding Generation

As a programmer, sometime we would like a tool to generate a code example for our requirement so that we don't need to code it from scratch. below is an example to ask chatgpt to provide us a algorithm with python language to predict the number of user based on date.

you also can ask it to generate it with specify python package like tensorflow

To request chatgpt to do it with java programming language for comparison. to be suprised, we really have a way to do it with java

2. Debugging Code

Before commiting code into our feature branch, we also can request chatgpt to check whether our code has problem or not.

Also, if you are experincing some exception and you have located the suspected snippet code which causes it, in this case , you can let chatgpt to debug your code.

3. Refactor Code or Clean Code

After you finished coding, you might find that your code is ugly(not clean) and you want to refactor your code so that your code reviewer can provide you approval.

4. Coding Completion

you might only make the beginning code in certain method and you want ChatGPT to complete it.

5. Generating Comments

you probably find that you didn't add comments in your code after you done code to implement JIRA. you can add comments yourself, but with ChatGPT you can request it to add it and then you review it.

6. Documentation

you also can request ChatGPT to document your method or class

7. Writing Test Cases

currently you might write test cases by your own or generate basic test cases by some tool. with Chatgpt, you can let it to generate a liitle bit complex test cases automatically. after that, you can adjust it a little bit.