My sister said my first script looked like 'magic words in a box'

I showed her a simple Python script I wrote that prints a greeting with her name. She's a baker, not a coder, and she just stared at it for a second and said, 'It's like you wrote magic words in a little box and it talks back.' That hit different because I'd been so focused on the syntax being wrong. It made me see the fun in making something happen, not just getting the code perfect. Has anyone else had a moment like that, where someone totally outside tech made you see your project in a new way?

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riverp3713d ago

That "magic words in a box" line is actually a perfect way to describe code. It cuts past all the technical stuff to the core idea. What was the first thing you made that gave you that feeling?

michaelnguyen12d ago

My first thing was a blinking text box that crashed my browser.

dianab6811d ago

Yeah, that's the best feeling. I still get it when I make a simple script that saves me time on something boring. Like @michaelnguyen said, even a blinking box that crashes feels like magic because you made it happen. Your sister nailed it, that's the fun part you gotta hold onto when the code gets messy later.