APPROVED VS. PROHIBITED RESOURCES

As you proceed with our Admissions Code Challenge, we want you to know which resources are okay vs. not okay to use. Read on for guidelines and contact us at admissions@marcylabschool.org with questions!

APPROVED RESOURCES

These are all totally okay to use!

  • This Website’s Tutorials

  • Google (or any comparable search engine) - feel free to do searches for coding topics or coding concepts. Just don’t ask a search engine to provide you with code to paste into your Replit.

  • Textbooks, videos, articles or coding websites

  • YouTube Tutorials

  • Online Tutorials (Ex: Codecademy, Khan Academy)

  • Support from friends, family, teachers, and/or Marcy Alum - this group should not write code for you, but don’t hesitate to get their support in understanding concepts, troubleshooting code, or deciphering the code challenge questions. We’re all about collaboration!

  • Marcy Office Hours (virtual)- these are optional and fun! We’ll walk through the coding concepts you need to create a strong submission, answer questions, and help you if you’re stuck. We won’t provide answers, though!

PROHIBITED RESOURCES

Please don’t use these resources!

  • Generative AI (ex: ChatGPT, Replit AI) - please don’t use generative AI like Replit AI or Chat GPT to write code for you or help you with this code challenge. For one, the answers provided can be a bit funky. Alongside that, using these sites could inhibit you from learning, retaining, and apply the coding concepts you need to know at the level required to navigate our interview or our Fellowship. We want you to thrive, so steer clear of AI for this specific code challenge!

  • Code Mined from GitHub - again, we want you to submit code that YOU have written. Please don’t pull code from GitHub or a comparable resource.

  • Code written by anyone else - noticing a theme here ;)? Submitting code written by someone else will inhibit our understanding - and yours - of how you approach coding. It could also keep you from succeeding in our interview process. Be you, do your own work, and know things will work out as they’re meant to! We aren’t looking for perfect submissions to our code challenge - but we are looking for submissions we know you have created!