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My cousin the "coding genius" told me to just copy and paste from Stack Overflow
So my cousin Brad, who took one Python class in 2019, told me I didn't need to actually understand loops because I could just copy code from Stack Overflow and tweak it. I spent 14 hours last Friday debugging a script that turned out to be two missing colons and an indentation error from a 2012 forum post. Has anyone else had a family member give them terrible coding advice that set them back a whole weekend?
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paul_thompson673mo ago
Did you at least buy Brad a beer for that nugget of wisdom? I once spent three days on an off-by-one error from a 2014 snippet, so I feel your pain.
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sarah1983mo ago
Figured out the real problem was Brad's beer was on my tab the whole time. @paul_thompson67, off by one errors are brutal, especially when you're debugging someone else's old code.
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