Finally got my first little program to run without crashing

I spent three nights trying to make a simple number guessing game in Python, and it kept giving me a 'NameError' every single time. Yesterday, I realized I had spelled a variable 'usergues' in one spot and 'userguess' in another. Fixed that one word, hit run, and it just WORKED. Seeing the words 'You got it!' pop up in the terminal felt like magic. Has anyone else had a moment where fixing one tiny mistake made everything click?

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miasanchez19h ago

The best part is how that one tiny fix makes the whole messy code in your head suddenly look clean and simple. What are you building next?

casey81818h ago

Yeah that onion thing is so real. I'll fix one bug and feel like a genius for five minutes, then the next layer shows me three more broken things I totally missed. It's like @miasanchez said, you get that quick hit of clean and simple in your head, but it's just a short break before you see the next mess. I keep chasing that clean feeling even though I know it won't last. The project is never really done, you just stop when you run out of time.

quinn60619h ago

That magic feeling fades pretty quick for me. The code runs, but then I see five other messy parts I didn't notice before. Fixing one typo just clears the fog to show the next problem. It's more like peeling layers off an onion than finding a final answer. The clean feeling never lasts because there's always another layer of mistakes to find.