Just wrote my 100th line of code that actually works

I was following a Python tutorial from a site called Codecademy. The project was a simple number guessing game. I typed it all out, hit run, and nothing broke. It just worked. I counted the lines after, and it was exactly 100. For months, my code would just crash or do nothing. Seeing that game run, with my own 100 lines, felt huge. It wasn't just copying anymore. I actually understood why the while loop and the if statements were placed where they were. That small win made the last three weeks of frustration totally worth it. Has anyone else hit a specific line count that felt like a real turning point?

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chen.phoenix5mo ago

Yeah, that first working project is such a rush. I read a blog post once where a dev said their first 50-line script that didn't error felt like magic, because before that it was just fixing typos in tutorials. That moment you actually get the logic is everything.

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bennett.luna5mo ago

Honestly that "fixing typos in tutorials" phase felt like my whole first year trying to code anything.

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kim.stella3mo ago

Does it ever feel like you spent more time learning to type than learning to code that first year? I swear my first "real" script was just me messing up a semicolon for three days.

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