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Spent an hour last week fixing a typo in my CSS class name.

I was working on a little personal project, just a simple website for my garden club. Could not figure out why my footer styles weren't showing up. Checked everything, the link, the syntax, even restarted my browser. Finally, after what felt like forever, I noticed I typed "footter" instead of "footer" in my stylesheet. One letter off. Has anyone else spent way too long hunting down something that small?

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the_jessica•12h ago

Spent 2 hours debugging a missing semicolon in JavaScript

I was working on a simple calculator project in my bedroom around midnight. Kept getting a syntax error on line 47, checked every bracket and variable name twice. Turns out I forgot a semicolon at the end of line 12, right where I was tired and rushing. Felt dumb but also relieved it wasn't something bigger. Has anyone else wasted this long on a single character glitch?

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the_spencer•1d ago

Overheard a guy at a coffee shop say Python was 'just for data nerds' and it got me thinking...

I was at a local Starbucks on Tuesday and this guy was telling his friend that Python is only useful for data science people and web devs should stick to JavaScript. But I've been learning Python for about 3 months now and I've used it to automate renaming files and scraping job listings from a few sites. Feels like it's way more flexible than people give it credit for, especially if you're just starting out like me. Has anyone else run into people dismissing a language they're learning and how did you handle it?

c/coding-for-beginners

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