Any Interest in a Coding Camp Type Thread?

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

Here is the thread:

Epicor Code Camp - Bring your skills, or lack thereof

Welcome to Code Camp! Please bear with me while I reserve a few posts and get some content in here. Continuing from here: Any Interest in a Coding Camp Type Thread? There seems to be enough interest in this, so I am going to get it started. In this thread we will both lay out some pre-defined topics, as well as answer questions. I encourage you to still ask questions in the main forums if your question is very specific and needs more help. This thread will probably tend to be a bit more gene…

Certainly welcome to continue discussion here about how it works.

[Evan_Purdy]

Might be as simple as curating some posts but I know it was a big breakthrough for me when I learned how to do a trace and how to turn on field help to see a binding.

[Banderson (Brandon Anderson)]

Step one of the class, how to do a trace, and how to read it.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@Banderson

Step one

Too late, I chose one I could easily do in my time available!

[Banderson (Brandon Anderson)]

Just make the bullet point for the place holder.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@Banderson

bullet point for the place holder.

@klincecum

Topics: (Bear with me, I’m no professor… No particular order!)

• HowTo: Create a tracelog / Read a tracelog
• What is a Func, or an Action?

[jkane (John Kane)]

I don’t think this has been established yet, so excuse me if it has.

Is it Kinetic Code Camp or Epicor Code Camp??

[Evan_Purdy]

Pretty sure its calvin ball

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

BTW, if anyone uses ChatGPT to post tutorials in my thread, you are dead to me 4 eva.

[TDray (Todd Dray)]

What about Blackbox?

[Banderson (Brandon Anderson)]

That’s actually a really good idea. As long as they read the answer and make sure it’s correct, it would save a lot of time!

—runs off to create my insights presentation with chat GPT

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@TDray

Blackbox?

FCS, I don’t even know what that is.
The world is moving too fast.

When is the Mars mission? I’m leaving.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@askulte

e.g. what’s a variable

[TDray (Todd Dray)]

Chat Blackbox: AI Code Generation, Code Chat, Code Search - Blackbox

It’s basically ChatGPT specifically for coding.

I am not saying the results are any better.

[Ernie (Ernie Lowell)]

There was a great article in The Economist recently that reminded me of something important…

All the LLM-trained AI’s are basically giving you back some form of “what most of their training data would be the best next word or phrase based on some algorithm of the number of times it followed what you gave it”.

Nothing in there about accuracy or factualness or what we, the great unwashed, would call “sensible”.

Just because much (even most) of the time it IS accurate or factual or sensible doesn’t mean it was designed to be so.

Verify first. That way trust is a lot easier.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

I feel the same about AI as I do about widgets.

Some of it is probably irrational, but icky is icky.

[Ernie (Ernie Lowell)]

@klincecum

Some of it is probably irrational

Some of what it gives back is most definitely irrational… don’t feel bad.

But by the same token, remember Windows 286? Windows 386?

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@Ernie

But by the same token, remember Windows 286? Windows 386?

Didn’t start messing with computers until 1989.

That came out in 1988. I think I’ve seen it, but am unfamiliar with it,

[Kevin_Barrow]

So, ATM the thread is TLDR, but I wanted to say ‘yes’ to the original question, I’d love to see something like that.

I know there are already some reference materials on Epiusers, pinning those links to a more central thread would be pretty awesome too.

Best regards,
Kevin

[Zerobertson (Zachary Robertson)]

@klincecum

Didn’t start messing with computers until 1989.

Ahh, the year I was born…