Got stuck on a loop in my first Python project and my friend in Austin had to talk me down

I was trying to make a simple number guessing game last Thursday and wrote a while loop that just wouldn't stop, lmao. My terminal was spamming numbers forever until I closed it. My buddy Jake in Austin hopped on a video call and showed me I forgot to increment my counter variable inside the loop. Has anyone else had a loop just completely run away on them like that?

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derek_ross20d ago

Classic beginner move right there. Forgot my own increment once and crashed a whole script, felt like a real genius that day.

the_eric20d agoMost Upvoted

Nah, infinite loops are just sloppy coding.

victor65120d ago

Oh man, that's a classic right there! I read an article once that called infinite loops a programmer's "first right of passage." It happens to EVERYONE before they get the hang of variable scope. Your friend Jake is a real one for the rescue.