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Spent 6 hours stuck on my first Python loop, then a typo in line 12 fixed everything
So last Tuesday I sat down to finally learn Python after putting it off for months, and I hit a wall hard on day one. I was trying to write a simple loop that added up numbers from a list, and my code kept printing the wrong total no matter what I tried. I rewrote the whole thing three times, googled 'why is my for loop broken' about 20 times, and even watched a 45 minute video in the middle of it. Around hour 6 I noticed I had typed a colon instead of a comma in line 12, and the second I fixed it everything ran perfectly. I actually laughed out loud at my desk because it was such a tiny thing. How do you all handle those dumb little mistakes without losing your mind? I'm only on week one and I already get why people say debugging is the real skill.
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uma_baker996d ago
a colon instead of a comma in line 12" is such a classic first week move, honestly that comma has ended more coding sessions than a dead laptop battery. The trick is to stop treating those bugs like they're personal insults and just read the line out loud to yourself like a weirdo. You'll catch way more typos that way, and you'll save yourself the 45 minute video detour.
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