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Hit 100 little Python scripts on a rainy Sunday and sat there staring at the folder
Two years back I could not get past chapter 3 of any coding tutorial. I would watch a video, nod along, and then freeze when the screen was blank and nobody was telling me what to type. So I stopped doing courses and just wrote tiny throwaway scripts, one a day, dumb stuff like renaming photos or rolling dice. Last Sunday the folder hit 100 files and I had to scroll twice in my own file manager, which sounds silly but it got me. The first 20 were rough copies of stuff I found online, but somewhere around number 60 I was fixing my own bugs without searching. For anyone still stuck at chapter 3, what was the thing that finally got you writing code instead of just reading about it?
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ryanh771mo ago
What finally worked for you when a script broke and nobody was there to fix it? For me it was getting mad enough at my own bug that I just sat there poking at it until it worked, and that stubbornness stuck way better than any tutorial.
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