My first Python script took 4 hours and still printed the wrong number | Coding For Beginners

Logan Miller · 2026-10-03T18:10:04.081925+00:00

I was following a YouTube tutorial last Tuesday and my calculator script kept adding strings instead of numbers. Turned out I forgot int() on the input, so "5" + "3" gave me "53" and I sat there staring at it for 20 minutes. How long did it take you to find your first dumb bug?

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