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Why does nobody talk about the shock of your first 100 lines of code that actually works?
I just hit that mark on a simple Python script after a month of trying, and it finally made the whole 'thinking like a computer' thing click for me, so has anyone else had a specific number that made it feel real?
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miles5414d ago
Oh man, that first real working chunk of code is a crazy feeling. For me it was less about a line count and more about the first time I got a loop to run without breaking everything. That's when it stops being random typing and starts to feel like you're actually building something. What was your script for?
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troy_ross13d ago
You said it stops being random typing, but that's the thing, it was never random. That first working script proves all the failed attempts were actually you learning the rules. The line count just makes the win feel solid.
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