Shoutout to the freeCodeCamp curriculum for something I didn't expect

I tried their JavaScript algorithms and data structures course expecting it to be basic, but the challenges got hard fast around step 80. I spent 4 hours on one problem about palindrome checking and learned that I actually needed to slow down and read docs instead of just guessing.

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fiona_reed2d ago

Oh man, "the challenges got hard fast around step 80" is so real. I hit that wall hard with their Roman numeral converter thing. Thought I was smart, then spent two hours debugging because I forgot to handle the 4s and 9s cases (you know, the tricky subtractive notation). It's humbling when you realize you can't just brute force your way through it. That's the point though, right? Forces you to actually read the MDN docs instead of just guessing until something works.