I was writing the same print statement over and over until my friend in Seattle asked why I wasn't using a function.

I was manually typing 'print('Processing data...')' before every single step in my script, and after seeing my 50-line mess, she just pointed at the screen and said 'That's what functions are for.'

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cole_bailey8513d ago

Yeah, that "can't believe you ever typed the same thing ten times" feeling is real. @johnfoster gets it. It's like a light bulb goes off. You stop being a copy-paste robot and start actually telling the code what to do. Makes everything cleaner and way easier to fix later.

johnfoster14d ago

My Seattle buddy saved me from that same mess last year. Once you start using functions, you can't believe you ever typed the same thing ten times.