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Hit 100 solved problems on Codecademy and it kind of hit me different

I started coding about 8 months ago just messing around with HTML and CSS. Last night I hit 100 exercises completed on the JavaScript track without even planning it. Just one of those random milestones that makes you realize how far you've come, you know? Has anyone else had a random number like that sneak up on you?

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fiona3321mo ago

and that whole thing about building something small really does hit different... I remember when I hit 50 on Codecademy and decided to make a calculator all by myself... ended up spending like 4 hours debugging because I couldn't figure out why hitting equals just kept showing NaN everywhere... finally realized I was trying to add strings together instead of numbers... biggest facepalm moment ever but that's what finally made it click for me how types actually work in JavaScript...

patriciamoore1mo ago

Oh man, 100 is a good feeling. I hit that on a Python course a while back and it honestly caught me off guard too. My advice is to start building something small on your own right now, even if it's just a to-do list or a random number generator. The gap between following exercises and writing code from scratch is where most people get stuck, so use that momentum while you have it. It doesn't have to be pretty, just something that works. That way when you hit 200 you'll have some real projects to look back on too.