Today I learned an important lesson while working on my Python homework. I copied some code, ran it, and instantly got a SyntaxError 😩 After checking line by line, I realized I had accidentally missed one letter — I forgot the “U” in user_age. That tiny mistake completely broke my program. Here’s the code I was working on 👇 user_age = int(input("Enter your age: ")) if user_age < 16: # Age 15 and under print("Too young.") insurance_price = 0 elif user_age < 25: # Age 16 - 24 insurance_price = 4800 elif user_age < 40: # Age 25 - 39 insurance_price = 2350 else: # Age 40 and up insurance_price = 2100 print(f"Annual price: ${insurance_price}") 💡 Lesson Learned: Even one missing character can crash your entire program. But finding it and fixing it is what makes you a better coder. Debugging isn’t failure — it’s progress.

1 language is not enough. What other programming language are you learning?

When it comes to learning something really challenging you have to take small steps and celebrate them as well. Go read my other post under classroom. I posted how one simple mistake can break your entire code. In this example my Python textbook threw a curve ball and wanted me to think that we were starting a different line of code from what I was coding.

One simple mistake can make your code break. This is from my Python textbook. You read a problem and you are supposed to translate and write the code. At time this can be difficult if I can be honest, specially as a beginner.

Check out this code that I practiced with my daughter before bed blue_dog = "Bluey" orange_dog = "Bingo" blueys_mom = "Chilli" blueys_dad = "Bandit" favorite_toy = "Chattermax" country = "Australia" print(blue_dog,"and",orange_dog,"like to play with",favorite_toy,".") print(blue_dog,"and",blueys_dad,"wanted to play hide and seek.")