PACT - Programming Assistant ChaTbot

Programmers face situations where they have to rely on messy documentation, other developers and online search for basic programming commands and queries when they encounter any new programming environment. This leads to the waste of time of developers and decreases productivity. In this paper, we present, “PACT”, a chat bot which assists the programmers with basic programming queries that they face when they are new to a programming environment. We use Neural Machine Translation architecture to generate coherent, non-rule based responses to a programmer’s query. The data that is fed to the neural machine translation model is collected from websites like StackOverflow, technical sub-reddits and technical StackExchanges.