Appreciation post: My friend's weird tip about learning Python loops actually worked

I was stuck for a week trying to understand nested loops, but then my friend told me to physically write out each step on index cards for a simple 3x3 grid, and it finally clicked for me, so has anyone else found a hands-on trick that broke through a coding block?

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jessew8321d ago

That "physically write out each step" thing reminds me of a blog post about using a whiteboard to trace recursion.

charles_barnes21d ago

Yeah the whiteboard thing... I had a teacher who made us do that with stacks and queues. Felt silly at the time but it kinda stuck.