My first real program broke for three days straight

I was trying to make a simple number guessing game in Python last week, and I kept getting this one error about a variable not being defined. I stared at my screen in my apartment in Austin for hours each night. I finally fixed it on Thursday when I saw I'd spelled 'guess' as 'gues' on line 15. Has anyone else lost a bunch of time to a tiny typo like that?

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cora_martinez5mo ago

That feeling is the worst. My roommate in college spent a whole weekend debugging a C program, only to find a missing semicolon after like fifty hours. The relief was real, but also kind of infuriating.

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nancyd855mo ago

Oh man, that hits home. I once spent three days trying to figure out why my code wouldn't run. I rewrote whole sections, cried a little, you know the drill. Turned out I'd typed a zero instead of the letter O in one variable name. Three days for that. I felt so smart and so stupid at the exact same time.

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