How I feel getting a peice of code to work after struggling with it for hours

xHassassin · 6 months

Spend 3 hours getting rid of the error.

Run code

Compiles without error

Feel overwhelming joy

Enter test data

Wrong answer

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

catchpen · 6 months

Yes it works! Don't touch the fucking keyboard!

tripleplayj · 6 months

I know exactly what you mean. One of the most relieving/happy moments of your day.

chattyWw · 6 months

For me its more like "FUCK!!! I'm such an idiot how could I forget to put a space there"

moggley555 · 6 months

I stayed late today (I know, on a Friday... I am a loser) because I was working through a small but complicated piece of code. I knew I was close, and if I left before I finished, I would forget what all my variables were and why I did certain things when I got back to it on Monday. I felt exactly like that when I finished!

Kyt-Xune · 6 months

I know that feel, bro.

It's a good feel.

esfisher · 6 months

How I feel after I spend a good amount of time on something really complex and it works the first time.

jordaniac89 · 6 months

That terrible feeling when your code compiles correctly, then you get garbage output or infinite loops.

Bennetts_Cousin · 6 months

I found the problem: while ( spellCorrectly ) { MakeCodeWork(); }

Rabid_Chocobo · 6 months

I once spent ALL night coding this ridiculous formula. It was an early homework assignment that everyone completed easily, but I just kept digging myself deeper and deeper until it finally worked. I laughed and danced when it worked just a couple hours before class.

for (int ring = 0; ring < sub; ring++){

     f.setColor(Color.BLACK);

     f.drawOval(x + ring * ((size / sub) / 2), y + ring * ((size / sub) / 2), size - (size / sub) * ring, size - (size / sub) * ring);
  }

}

I honestly have no Idea how it works now

themusicman777 · 6 months

I swear this gif has sound.

WindSandStars · 6 months

If your coding is as sloppy as your spelling then it's no wonder you have problems :P

siq1ne · 6 months

[deleted] · 6 months

Love this, especially when working on new areas of programming I don't fully understand.

solidstripes · 6 months

Oh god, I wish I had this feeling today... stupid MIPS assembly code.

Ilverin · 6 months

Only reason I'm still in college/Csci.

M3cha · 6 months

The loop... it's perfect!

zodar · 6 months

You have a bug in your headline haha

luckycypher · 6 months

I before e except after c. Stick that in your compiler and debug it.

[deleted] · 6 months

This is insanely accurate.

Drowlord101 · 6 months

I'm usually pissed off because it ends up being some stupid typo. Or I copied a few lines of code and didn't switch a plus to a minus.

AaronMickDee · 6 months

I'm no programmer by any means, but I've spent hours upon hours upon hours trying to get some PHP code to work, and even, in my earlier youth, mIRC Scripting to run right... Although I don't miss the stress, I do miss the feeling of what the picture is conveying.

Actually_Doesnt_Care · 6 months

This is what I assume TLO looks like when he wins.

DarthCaesar · 6 months

oh god i know this feeling so much

TheGroosenator · 6 months

"peice"
piece
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

davepople · 6 months

From the look of your title im pretty sure you were having syntax errors

thevideoclown · 6 months

Same here. I cant imagine getting a programming job. I just do a hell of a lot of trial and error and then it does what I want and have no idea why

DrKillJoyPHD · 6 months

I feel the same at first, but then I realize how stupid it was and got mad.

Fuck SilverLight!

Autsin · 6 months

"I" before "e" except after "c" or when sounding like "a" as in "neighbor" or "weigh."

canadas · 6 months

My thoughts after a couple of hours are usually " I don't know why you work...I'm pretty sure you shouldn't work, but I am not going to ask questions"

csorfab · 6 months

Fellow hungarians? None? :(

koffinkat · 6 months

I agree with this!

stuff_and_crap · 6 months

I really need to know the story behind this guy.

RGT42 · 6 months

reddit.com/r/HIFW

phider · 6 months

I never feel like that. I just facepalm at the fact that I just spent 30 minutes with ctrl+z and ctrl+y trying to find out where my error came up before I find the missing curly brace.

BarryFromEastenders · 6 months

Your spelling takes the piece.

metalmuse · 6 months

Oh hell yes!!!

Sleepy_One · 6 months

I knew what this gif was before I even clicked it. Every CS major knows this feeling.

skizzt · 6 months

Although it's kind of shit realising just how simple it actually was after you get it working. Can't stand it haha

half_blood_prince · 6 months

*piece

ddoubletake · 6 months

That is how i react when i find the word i was looking for after hours of thinking.

bradgillap · 6 months

Every day for the past two weeks!

I'm not a programmer but I got fogproject working today hosting most of our bootable media over pxe and finished stage 3 of my project in new territory.

stage 1.. this shit doesn't work

stage 2... this shit finally works but all of these directories are a mess

stage 3... Ive been working on this several days but it's finally done. Everythings clean and upgrade proof. Now I just have to sysprep some stuff and document it.

Stage 4... Trying to explain to my boss how it works and why it is important. http://i.imgur.com/9E5O3.jpg

My imagination of the tech who replaces me due to being crushed by a rack being held up on one corner under a coil of ethernet cable.

NEW GUY: "This last tech had no idea what he was doing. Lets wipe this server and go back to physical media."

Also... this feeling, gentoo

patefoisgras · 6 months

I usually only have this reaction with silly mistakes that took hours of hair pulling to find. Challenging conceptual obstacles tend to give me a Darth Vader laugh when conquered.

rosts · 6 months

I love watching real and intense feelings!

Quierta · 6 months

Step 1: Code a huge typography website

Step 2: Turn off borders

Step 3: BOOM

Step 4: Stare at screen and type random pieces of code for 4 hours

Step 5: Make that face

^ My day today. I felt accomplished.

Eldeeff · 6 months

Quick fix, caffeine.

Stripeb49 · 6 months

I can totally relate...taking my first programming class this semester.

aeisenst · 6 months

Does it feel almost as good as correcting your spelling?

RedCedars · 6 months

You misspelled "piece". You better fix or their will be trouble. Redditors will not let this slide, there a ruthless bunch. :)

Yahbo · 6 months

I just had a programming midterm yesterday and I can confirm this. Had to take the test then write a program, finished with like 3 minutes left because I'm a dumbass and it took me 2 hours to figure how much of a dumbass I am.

AcidicSuperSam · 6 months

I will defend until the day that I die that getting a difficult piece of code to work is one of the best feelings that can be felt in a lifetime.

asianfatboy · 6 months

Same reaction when you just thought out a better code, you then replace everything thinking it would work better... and then errors... errors everywhere. You'd be banging your head on the keyboard later...

XinE758 · 6 months

I'm having this issue right now... as soon as I figure this shit out I'm going to scream just like that.

The_Vork · 6 months

This.

eight26 · 6 months

I usually exclaim, "I am the smartest man allliiiiive!"

Neafie2 · 6 months

I will do this when i finish programming my robot.

vitalAscension · 6 months

I usually quit work a bit early on Fridays but today was different. I finally fixed an issue that I had been pestering me for weeks. I was stuck but a coworker provided an example that gave me exactly what I needed. I got the core functionality working around 5:30 - the time I wanted to stop for the day. I ended up working another 2 hours to finish everything up so that I don't have to do it Monday. It was the same feeling that you described that pushed me into a little overtime on a Friday afternoon.

gigimoi · 6 months

...And then the specular bleed fails on the reflective distance factor when Camera_01's pitch angle is a multiple of 7.u

SinCleansingPenis · 6 months

Yes, except when it is something fucking stupid unrelated to your code. My new job requires Flex with amfphp. Fuck that shit.

LastBaron · 6 months

I don't just feel this way, I often actually do this.

detroitdoesntsuckbad · 6 months

As someone who works with Wonderware... Yes!

Zhang5 · 6 months

Step away from code to let off stress.

Return.

Magically it works now.

Beat head against desk in confusion.

ossimus · 6 months

mfw she came

mtba · 6 months

Is it me or everyone hears "yeeeaaah" in their minds?..

ivanmarsh · 6 months

Usually I feel exactly the opposite way... Jesus you idiot, wasn't that obvious... why didn't you d that in the first place?

Caboteq · 6 months

Well. It works until you present it to a room full of people anyway.

nitefang · 6 months

As someone who just recently started to learn programing.

This is an understatement. It is true and sad that most of programing is fixing errors.

jakster4u · 6 months

How if feel about getting a piece of code to work in public

kameelyan · 6 months

If you're spending that much time with just a "piece" of code, I can only hope you're still in college...and not working for say the NSA...

LazyAardvark · 6 months

amen...amen

zuluthrone · 6 months

ive had this feeling so many times this week. i very often let out a large, heavy, evil laugh when it finally comes together.

_KAS_ · 6 months

"WHAAT?! That semicolon on line 240 is a colon?! Why are you telling me the problem is on line 1489?!"

mathsvlog · 6 months

As a programmer-in-training...it's better than orgasms...plural

erfling · 6 months

It's like you can't sneeze, and then you do, and then you realize you're ejaculating inside of a beautiful woman

Mehj_Ewi · 6 months

Engineering student here learning MATLAB. Took me over an hour to figure out "save" allowed my program to run after seeing 'Error' after 'Error'.

adrianmonk · 6 months

Shortly before that moment is the small (hopefully) interval of time where you've written the code, and it compiles, but you haven't mustered the courage to run it. Because if you don't run it, you can maintain the belief that the code is correct, whereas if you do run it, you may well be proven wrong. And believing the code is correct is such a nice feeling that I, at least, want to hold on to it for a while.

wogturt · 6 months

It's like the same could be said about any tough subject or situation. "After I spent hours working a really hard physics problem." "After I finally put my engine back together and it worked."

[deleted] · 6 months

How I feel in that situation

[deleted] · 6 months

Am I the only person on reddit who isn't a coder?

Siege17 · 6 months

Maybe the problem with the peice of code is that you didn't spend enough time checking for typos?

babmmoore · 6 months

*Piece, I'm sorry I had to - OCD.

Qwestop · 6 months

Can't spell = can't code. That's your problem bro.

noroger · 6 months

It's spelled "piece", what kind of programmer are you?!

kevbrown713 · 6 months

Anybody else think she looks like nic cage?

zboub64 · 6 months

XD dude i feel the same

pgpgpg · 6 months

Nope, Dude... spell checker still broken.

The_Maf · 6 months

I didnt think Abed had emotions.

psychroclasm · 6 months

I feel like this, but then I plummet into "Why the hell didn't I figure that out an hour ago?!?!?"

Fucking semicolons, man.

Kristin_Ols23 · 6 months

I cannot be the only one who thinks that that person looks like Nick Cage

wonderboy1227 · 6 months

One of my all time favorite gifs. Also just experienced this today, pure joy.

driniM3 · 6 months

Haha I had that feeling last night at 4am

The_HalfBlood_Prince · 6 months

And then I wonder what did I do that is making it work

[deleted] · 6 months

I haven't been programming for that long. I struggle with shit that most coders wouldn't even have to think about. But in that time, the greatest thing that has happened is that I now understand programming posts on reddit.

This is what it feels like

solidstripes · 6 months

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nissanator · 6 months

My husband says you described his day very well LOL

LOOKITSADAM · 6 months

Unit testing Java UI elements is gets the same reaction out of me.

windowInterceptor.init(submit.triggerClick()).process(BasicHandler.init().assertContainsText(message).triggerButtonClick("OK")).run();

I hate using the tool, but it's required.

Olive_Garden · 6 months

Get this nerd shit off of r/funny.

You virgins have /r/programminglosers or something right?

invalid_password · 6 months

If it is good code it should work once you type it in. HOURS?

funny

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