I just wrote my 50th line of code that actually worked

I was following a Python tutorial about making a simple number guessing game. After about an hour of typing, deleting, and looking up error messages, I hit run and the whole thing just... ran. No red text, nothing. It asked for a guess, I typed a number, and it told me if I was right. It was only 50 lines total, but seeing it work from start to finish for the first time felt huge. It finally clicked that all those little bits of syntax actually build into something real. Has anyone else had a small program run clean on the first try after a bunch of fails?

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angelab6212d ago

My first clean run was a text-based adventure with about 30 lines. I stared at the terminal for a solid minute waiting for an error that never came. That feeling when it finally accepts your input and just works is the best reward. It makes all the previous frustration totally worth it.

lunah8612d ago

Ever wonder if that first clean run feels so good because it's the first time the computer actually listens to you? Like before that, you're just shouting commands into a void. That minute of silence at the terminal is you waiting to see if you finally learned how to speak its language.