That one Tuesday where everything just clicked with classes in Python

I've been learning Python for about 3 months now, mostly through YouTube tutorials and messing around on my own. Last Tuesday I was working on this project to track my monthly expenses, and I kept getting stuck on how to organize the data. I finally sat down and forced myself to build a class for transactions instead of using a bunch of messy dictionaries. Once I figured out the init method and added a method to calculate totals, everything just fell into place. I spent like 4 hours straight coding without looking up a single thing, which never happens to me. It was weird because the whole week before I felt like I was hitting walls with everything. Has anyone else had a day where the concepts suddenly clicked after weeks of struggling?

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david_stone26d ago

Man, that Tuesday magic is real. I had a similar thing with list comprehensions where I just stared at them for weeks and then one night it was like my brain finally unpacked the whole thing.

nora53526d ago

You ever notice how some things just click like that? @david_stone I think there's a pattern with a lot of stuff we learn, not just code. Like, you can beat your head against a problem for days, then walk away and it just falls into place... happens with fixing stuff around the house or even figuring out a new route on the GPS. Brains gotta process in the background, I guess.