Hit 1000 lines on my very first Python script and it was completely useless

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1000 lines and useless? That just means you got the learning part out of the way. Every line you wrote taught you something, even the ones that don't work. The real waste is stopping at 100 lines and never figuring out what doesn't work.

victor_lane605h ago

Oh totally, I've personally written about 10,000 lines of code that now just sit in a folder called "why did I think this was a good idea." It's like my own personal museum of bad decisions, but hey, I learned that a variable named "temp123" is not actually temporary, it's forever. The real tragedy is when you write 50 lines perfectly and then spend 3 hours chasing a bug because you got too confident. So yeah, embrace the garbage code. It's the only way to appreciate the good stuff when it finally happens.