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Question about getting stuck on a single tutorial for 2 weeks straight
Last month I started learning Python through a free online course. I got to the section on loops and for loops in particular just would not click in my head. I watched the same 10 minute video maybe 15 times over 14 days. I printed out the example code and stared at it during lunch breaks at the shop. Finally on a Sunday morning I rewrote the whole thing from memory and it worked. Has anyone else spent way too long on one simple concept before it finally made sense?
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mila_brown101mo ago
OH COME ON that's totally NORMAL. Two weeks on one thing is nothing. You're just getting started with the real work. I've spent TWO MONTHS on a single HTML layout problem because my flexbox kept breaking and I refused to look up the answer. Loops are a BASIC building block and you NEED to get them right. Better to spend two weeks now than two years writing broken code that you have to redo later. You did the right thing by sticking with it until it actually CLICKED.
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