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Finally got my first line of code running at the library downtown
I was at the public library on Main Street last Tuesday, just staring at my screen for like 2 hours. I followed a YouTube tutorial by a guy named Mike, and I finally got a simple Python script to print 'hello world' on my laptop. It felt HUGE for me because I've been stuck on setting up the environment for weeks. Has anyone else had a moment where something just clicked after struggling forever?
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shane_wilson5d ago
Three hours at the downtown library is nothing compared to the two weeks I spent on the same thing, @pat_harris. I feel you on that staring moment, I once sat for four hours at the Starbucks on Elm just trying to get Python to recognize my pip install command. The setup is the hardest part because you don't even know what you don't know yet. When it finally worked, I literally stood up and did a little victory dance right there by the magazines. That feeling of the terminal just printing your first message is like unlocking a secret level in a video game.
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