Spent 4 hours debugging a missing semicolon last night

I was working on this little JavaScript project where I was trying to make a button change color when clicked. Simple stuff for practice right? Well the button just sat there doing nothing for like 2 hours while I kept rewriting the whole function. Turned out I forgot a semicolon after one of my variables in the middle of the code. I felt so dumb because I was looking at the wrong line the whole time. My friend who's been coding for a while just laughed and said it happens to everyone. I learned that I need to slow down and check each line one by one instead of panicking. Has anyone else wasted a ton of time on a tiny typo like that?

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hollyg591mo ago

Yeah man, same boat. Spent two hours on a Python script once because I typed "flase" instead of "false.

oliver_wilson491mo ago

Wait, TWO hours?

tarag2825d ago

Ctrl+F is your friend for that.