AI Assisted Coding - IDM Spring 2023 Symposium

Setup

1. Make sure you have an account with ChatGPT
2. Login to or sign up for a GitHub account
3. Create a fork of this breakout session materials repository (ETA < 60 seconds)
   
4. Start up a codespace for editing and running the code (opening the link in a new window is recommended)
   
   Select your fork of the session repository (try entering "symposium" to find your forked repository)
   
   Bump system specs to 4-core 8GB RAM
   
   ETA 10-15 seconds
5. Navigate (on the left) to the python directory and double-click 5fixed.py. This will bring up a dialog in the lower right corner of the window. Select install - note that this is installing into the remote codespace, not onto your local computer.
   

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Activities

Explain, Refactor, Optimize, and Test MATLAB Code (matlab folder)

1. original
2. refactored into function
3. optimized with vector operations
4. tested
5. fixed

Translate MATLAB Code to Python (python folder)

1. translated
2. load from .mat files
3. create reference data
4. test translation
5. fix translation

Live Coding with Copilot/ChatGPT (copilot folder)

1. load .csv file
2. aggregate case counts for type A and type B
3. calculate mean and variance
4. implement test
5. run test on reference data
6. calculate mean by week
7. plot with matplotlib
8. save to .png file

SEIR Model with Copilot (model folder)

*Note: prompts in prompts.txt

1. import numpy and matplotlib.pyplot
2. prompt for function to run model
3. prompt for function invoke model and plot results

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Resources

Example Code Repository

This repository clorton/idm-symposium-2023

Octave in GitHub Codespace

Takes about 5 minutes to install. Note: about ½ way through the installation there is a prompt to which you must respond in order to continue the installation.

(hover over the commands below to reveal the "copy" button in the upper right corner)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y octave

Install R in GitHub Codespace

Takes about 5 minutes to install.

instructions

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# update indices
sudo apt update -qq
# install two helper packages we need
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends software-properties-common dirmngr
# add the signing key (by Michael Rutter) for these repos
# To verify key, run gpg --show-keys /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/cran_ubuntu_key.asc 
# Fingerprint: E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
wget -qO- https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/marutter_pubkey.asc | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/cran_ubuntu_key.asc
# add the R 4.0 repo from CRAN -- adjust 'focal' to 'groovy' or 'bionic' as needed
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs)-cran40/"
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends r-base

Additional steps for integration with GitHub Codespace:

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sudo /usr/bin/R --silent --slave --no-save --no-restore -e "install.packages('languageserver', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"
sudo /usr/bin/R --silent --slave --no-save --no-restore -e "install.packages('jsonlite')"

GitHub Codespaces

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