My cousin in Omaha told me to stop Googling error messages and just read the line number, and I hate that he's right | Coding For Beginners - HW Forums
My cousin in Omaha told me to stop Googling error messages and just read the line number, and I hate that he's right
He said "the file and line are right there, the message is just noise until you look at the code" and after 2 weeks of actually doing it I've fixed 9 bugs on my own that I would've pasted into a forum instead, so now I'm curious how many beginners here read the traceback before searching it.
Worth noting the line number usually points to where things blew up, not always where the bug started, so you still gotta read the code around it. Still, yeah, he's right that the message alone won't save you.