My neighbor's kid saw my first working Python script and called it 'magic'

I was on my porch last Thursday trying to get a simple script to print 'Hello, world' ten times, and after three tries it finally ran without an error. The 10-year-old from next door was watching and just said, 'Whoa, you made the computer do that? That's like magic.' Has anyone else had a simple comment from a non-coder make you feel like you're actually getting somewhere?

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sagesingh3mo ago

Remember when that stuff felt like magic to you? My nephew said the same thing about a basic HTML page and it snapped me right back to being a kid. Those moments are a good gut check on your progress.

wilson.emma3mo ago

Watch a kid get excited over a blinking cursor. It makes you realize how jaded you've become about the whole thing. We should bottle that feeling and sell it to burnt out devs.

simonp4027d ago

That wonder gets lost so fast in the daily grind.