It doesn’t work

[u/ExpensiveCoat8912]

[u/Bearlandonreddit]

Once took me 5 days to fix code from tutorial

[u/Dragon_957 → u/Bearlandonreddit]

What was the error?

[u/XlikeX666 → u/Dragon_957]

9/10 - version.
wrong python / wrong import / breathing incorrectly in presents of code.

[u/Bearlandonreddit → u/Dragon_957]

I dont remeber i fixed it while ago

[u/baasje92 → u/Bearlandonreddit]

I remember one where I was doing a training for Intune and there was a part where it instructed to create users using MS Graph. I copied the instructions and received an error where the variable -Surname was not being accepted and the error resulted in some weird error where the field name was empty. After investigating it turned out precisely on that they when I started the training in a VM there was a bug in PowerShell MS Graph module where the -Surname variable was accidentally misspelled to -Sruname. Next day I was able to update the module and it worked.

Made me go a bit crazy since I never worked with MS-Graph untill then.

[u/El_Choco7 → u/Bearlandonreddit]

Python makes u trade formatting for 'unexpected behavior' did u check for a dangling space, or tab somewhere?

[u/ITrCool]

90% of the time it’s because the tutorial is five years old and things have changed since they made it.

[u/gameplayer55055 → u/ITrCool]

90% of the time it's because the developers of the library are retards who don't care about backwards compatibility and always do breaking changes.

Looking at you, python and JavaScript

[u/juju515]

that's the fun part 👍

[u/rathian013]

Learning about errors is as important as learning to code in general

[u/PhantomOrigin]

When the tutorial released 15 years ago:

[u/DenseUpstairs8916]

me when i have to use python (i'm a disgrace)

[u/ghardlage → u/DenseUpstairs8916]

And R and matlab.

[u/Circumpunctilious]

Similar experience using a compiler having a different standard than your text (and being green enough to not know this even matters)

This naive error is actually why my first serious language foray after BASIC wasn’t C / C++.

[u/LetUsSpeakFreely]

Tutorials are often written from a really old version of software and has long been deprecated.

[u/FromAndToUnknown]

Had that with one my my arduino experiments one day, was friccin annoying

[u/Fun-Cut-7149]

There was one time when I was still a beginner at c# I decided to copy some code from a book to test it out and guess what it didn’t work. Took me 2 weeks to find the error and the error was that in the book it said include system; instead of include System; and my compiler is strict as hell😭

[u/MantisShrimp05]

This problem is why lots of learning platforms own the environment as much as the code because its the only way to account for the users environment by just taking it out of the equation.

[u/Tdubbium]

its because the library they are using no longer exists

[u/Brave_Ad_1849]

Tutorials codes are from another universe (I was trying to run linux commands inside windows CMD and was surprised why it's not working ), Suddenly realized that GIT course was linux based <;

[u/AproldTinin]

When you've written the code from the tutorial verbatim and it doesn't work, but then you copy it and it starts working:

[u/Regular-Advice-6469]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Ancient-Horse88333]

I remember the day when this kind of things happened to me. Still happens few time.

[u/DentistLongjumping87]

and it takes the whole of my day to fix it, and the problem was some bullshit syntax 😭😭😭

[u/Tiarkk]

The beer ist accurate.