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Appreciation post: my uncle told me to build a calculator before touching any framework and he was dead right
When I was 19 my uncle in Akron handed me a copy of Java and said write a tip calculator with a loop before you touch any big framework. I ignored him for a bit, tried to jump straight into a React tutorial, and spent three days stuck on why my button did nothing. Then I went back and built his dumb calculator in an afternoon and suddenly loops made sense to me. Still keep that old file around when I get stuck on something new. Did any of you get one piece of advice that felt too simple at the time but turned out correct?
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mark3613d ago
Tbh the part about keeping the old file around really got me. I did almost the exact same thing with a little guessing game I wrote in Python when I was learning. Spent weeks confused about why my functions kept returning nothing, turned out I never actually called them. Felt so dumb but once it clicked it clicked for good. Now whenever some new tool or library is kicking my butt, I go back and read that ugly old code and it calms me down. Your uncle sounds like he knew exactly what he was doing.
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