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Got told my variable names were bad and it changed how I code
I had someone look at my first little project last week, a simple to-do list in Python. They told me my variable names were things like "x" and "data1" and they had no clue what was going on. I spent a whole day renaming everything to stuff like "task_description" and "user_input" and suddenly the code actually made sense to me. Has anyone else had a similar moment where a simple piece of feedback clicked for them?
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harper_wright4mo ago
Good grief, that's the single most useful lesson you'll ever learn in coding.
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margaret_chen4mo ago
Fell asleep mid-tutorial once. Woke up a master.
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the_blair2mo ago
Wait, you actually fell asleep and still came out knowing stuff? That's wild.
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