With all due respect, if you couldn't get a passing grade in intro programming courses I'm not sure how much GPT would have helped. Additionally, if college was the first time getting your feet wet in programming, you were likely already years behind the curve.

I'm not trying to be nasty, but for loops, variables, the concept of program flow etc are very elementary concepts that many children and teens are fully capable of teaching themselves, even pre-internet.

I think ChatGPT could pass any intro programming course so I have a hunch that it's just going to lead to lots of cheating and poor programming skills.

Did you end up sticking it out? Grats if so and you're probably better off for not having had ChatGPT hold your hand. For me, the temptation to just have it pass my classes for me would have been way too tempting. It's too good at boilerplate programming which is every programming 101 project.

"Write me an employee tracking system in java." Change up the comments and boom done with the assignment.