Random comment at a library coding meetup stuck with me for weeks

I was at the public library downtown last Tuesday during their free coding night, fumbling through a Python script that kept throwing errors. A guy maybe 60 years old leaned over and said, "You're not learning the language, you're memorizing how to be mad at it." Has anyone else had a stranger say something small that totally reframed how you approach debugging?

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jenkins.wade23d ago

Nah, getting mad is how you learn what not to do again, it's half the battle.

jamierodriguez22d ago

Laughing out loud because I tried that "learning from anger" thing yesterday when my code kept breaking. Got so mad I threw my laptop charger across the room and then spent 20 minutes untangling it. Really learned a valuable lesson about not throwing things, but the code still didn't work. So now I'm mad AND I have a tangled charger. Real productive system you got there, Jenkins.