I found out yesterday that most beginners spend 70% of their time just fixing bugs in their own code

Saw this stat on a coding subreddit and it hit me hard. I spent like 3 hours last night tracking down a missing semicolon. Has anyone else noticed this too or am I just bad at debugging?

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thomasgonzalez13d ago

Uh, "missing semicolon" for 3 hours? That honestly sounds like you're not reading your own error messages. Most of the time the compiler or interpreter tells you exactly what line the problem is on.

emma_baker6113d ago

Eh, sometimes the error line number points to a totally different spot than the actual problem though.

evan_davis13d ago

Hah, yeah I feel that. I once spent forever hunting a bug that was pointing at line 42 when the real issue was a missing closing bracket like 200 lines earlier.