I was writing the same code over and over for a week before I learned about functions

I was making a simple number guessing game in Python and kept copying my 'check the guess' logic every single time the player took a turn. After about seven copies, my friend looked at my screen and just said, 'You know you can make a function for that, right?' I felt so dumb. I rewrote it with one function and my code went from 50 messy lines to about 20 clean ones. Has anyone else had a basic concept like that just click way later than it should have?

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wyattc762mo ago

Dude that exact thing happened to me with arrays. I was making a to-do list app and had like 12 separate variables for tasks before a buddy was like "bro, use an array." I felt like such a caveman.

the_rowan3mo ago

Welcome to the club, we meet on Tuesdays. I did the same thing with a bunch of print statements before realizing I could just loop them. The real fun starts when you figure out you can put functions inside other functions and your brain melts all over again.

jason5243mo ago

Used to think functions were just extra work. Now I can't imagine coding without them.