Tried learning Python on my lunch breaks at a coffee shop downtown

Two weeks ago I was at Joe's Brew on Main trying to follow a tutorial on loops, and somehow I wrote a script that just printed my name 500 times before I figured out how to stop it. The barista asked if I was okay after the third time my laptop started beeping. Has anyone else had a coding session go sideways in public?

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margaret9929d ago

Oh man, that reminds me of the time I was at a Starbucks trying to follow a tutorial on dictionaries, and I accidentally set an infinite loop that kept opening new browser tabs. After like 20 tabs popped up, the manager came over and asked if I was trying to hack them or something. I was so embarrassed I just packed up and left. I swear coffee and coding don't mix for me because my brain just goes into overdrive and I forget basic stuff like how to stop a script. The barista asking if you were okay is hilarious though, because mine gave me this look like I was about to crash their whole system.

sammoore21d ago

Wait, 20 tabs in like a few seconds? That's wild... I can't even imagine the manager walking over thinking you're some kind of cyber criminal just trying to learn Python in a coffee shop. You gotta wonder what goes through their heads sometimes. That's even worse than my buddy @zarab24's story about freezing a library computer so bad they had to restart the whole system. Honestly though, coffee and coding is a dangerous combo, I've made plenty of dumb mistakes on a caffeine buzz too. The barista giving you the side eye is the cherry on top though, like you're about to bring down their whole WiFi network or something.

zarab2429d ago

@margaret99 that Starbucks loop story is rough, I've been there. Coffee shops are the worst place to troubleshoot because you're already wired and everyone's watching you. At least you didn't crash the whole place, just your own browser.