I was reading the honesty policy and it said no plagiarism. I was wondering how AI falls into that category. I was using chatGPT to help me along the course and I wonder if that isn’t allowed. While doing the lessons, if there was parts of code I didn’t understand I would ask chatGPT to explain it and then write me code for it. After it had written the code I made sure I understood how it worked. So with that info, I was wondering if they would fall under the dishonesty policy.
If you were using it to understand something in the lessons, that is fine. If you were using it to write code for the challenges, then that will be detrimental to your learning, but it is your choice to make (or not). But if you were using it for the certification projects, then yes, that may be against the academic honesty policy depending on how much you were using it and in what context.
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for the certification projects, I would always solve everything but like one or two steps, and then I would ask chatGPT why my code wouldn’t work, which it would solve by giving me 1-2 lines of code or modifying something. Is that fine, I have yet to claim the certification so if it isn’t I will just leave it unclaimed.
asking chatGPT doesn’t give you chance to improve your problem solving skills, ask here on the forum instead. Also it may be againt the Academic Honesty Policy if you make ChatGPT write code for you
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It is hard to tell from your answer one way or another what your exact reliance on AI was. So I’m gonna try to use some common sense. If you think the AI wrote more than 10% of the code for you, then you should probably make an effort to redo the project by yourself. (You may find yourself getting horribly stuck and that should indicate even more that your reliance on AI was hurting your ability to learn)
(If it came down to one or two lines max, then that seems harmless)
That is the main reason this forum is a thing.
To ask people so they can help you out
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Hello @praniladhikari666 !
I would like to compliment you on your good ethics to assure you are following the honesty policy.
One thing you might do when stuck is find the subforum, or the General as you have done, and post your complete code and questions.
Another is to visit the freeCodeCamp You Tube channel, or try searching through the News Category.
I generally, do a general website search for the specific step and include freeCodeCamp in the search.
I find it will either lead me to previous questions on the subject in the forum, or offer information in the News category.
Wishing you good success on your coding journey. 
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