Hit 100 lines of code that actually worked on my first try

I was following a Python tutorial from a site called freeCodeCamp and built a simple number guessing game. When I ran it and it worked without any errors, I was shocked lol. It felt like a real win after weeks of fixing tiny mistakes. Has anyone else had a moment like that with a small project?

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rileyfox9d ago

Okay but it's just 100 lines of code. That's basically a warm-up exercise, not some huge milestone. People act like every tiny step in coding is this life changing event. It's a tutorial project, you followed the steps. Of course it worked. The real test is building something from your own messy ideas. That's when you actually learn anything.

tylermurray9d ago

Yeah but you gotta start somewhere right? My first real project was a total mess of broken features and weird bugs. That tutorial code gave me the basic pieces to even try. It's like learning chords before writing a song, the simple stuff has to come first. Why dismiss the starting point everyone needs?

tarajenkins6d ago

Honestly I hate how people in this thread are acting like 100 lines isn't a big deal lol. For someone who's been stuck on syntax errors and broken imports for weeks that first clean run feels like magic. It doesn't matter if it's a tutorial or not, you still typed every line and watched it come together. That moment where your computer actually does what you told it to do is super validating. Let people celebrate their small wins without being a downer about it.