GPTutor: a ChatGPT-powered programming tool for code explanation

Understand

Learning new programming skills requires tailored guidance.

• With the emergence of advanced Natural Language Generation models like the ChatGPT API, there is now a possibility of creating a convenient and personalized tutoring system with AI for computer science education.
• This paper presents GPTutor, a ChatGPT-powered programming tool, which is a Visual Studio Code extension using the ChatGPT API to provide programming code explanations.
• By integrating Visual Studio Code API, GPTutor can comprehensively analyze the provided code by referencing the relevant source codes.