Serious question, has anyone else's first 'Hello World' program just refused to work for no reason?

Tbh, last week I spent 45 minutes in my living room staring at a single line of Python, only to realize I'd typed 'print(Hello World)' without the quotes. Anyone have a similar facepalm moment starting out?

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jana_black17d ago

Oh man, the "print(Hello World)" thing is a classic. I mean, my first real facepalm was with a website. I kept trying to link a stylesheet for hours, and the page just stayed plain white. Turns out I saved the file as "style.css.txt" because my computer hid the extensions. I was so mad at the computer for being broken. It's always the tiny, simple stuff that gets you.

ben_lewis17d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah @jana_black, hidden file extensions are the worst kind of simple trap.

rileygarcia17d ago

My buddy was convinced his new keyboard was broken because his code wouldn't compile. He'd been hitting the letter O instead of zero in a variable name for like an hour.