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My cousin told me to just 'jump in and build something' when I asked where to start with coding.
This was at a family BBQ last summer, and I was stuck trying to pick the perfect first language. He said, 'Pick a tiny project, like a number guessing game, and Google every single step.' It worked. What's a good first tiny project for someone who's never written a line of code?
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fiona_west215h ago
Oh, your cousin gave you the only good advice anyone ever gives about coding. Honestly, a to-do list app is the classic first project for a reason. You'll immediately run into how to store the tasks, mark them done, and probably delete them, which covers a ton of basic concepts. Just be ready for your first version to be a text-only mess where you can't actually delete anything.
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tessa_murray2h ago
Yeah, my first attempt just printed "buy milk" over and over in an infinite loop. I finally had to close the whole terminal window to make it stop, which felt like a pretty solid delete function.
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