Forever grateful!

[Mappa]

Hei Josh! 

I don't know exactly in which category this post belongs or pretend you are going to read it all or answer to it but I'm going to write it either way and slap it here because I don't  care how my words come across, or what opinion of me one can have...I have to share what i feel today.

These are my thoughts, raw, in the heat of the moment, trembling with emotions

LOOK AT THIS!!  I made it!  I'm programming! and it is thanks to you and this incredible engine <3
so far...
nothing big, nothing fancy, just following your last tutorial on YT about components... child play for 99% of the people....So why am i writing this? 

CONTEXT
since i'm watching the videos and stopping every 6 seconds to go in the manual and understand why you are writing certain things for example:

local window = ActiveWindow()


and I go about and read through the definition and then the example. Trying to figure everything out. It is an extreme slow process but I'm learning...
not without AID
but nevertheless understanding why in this example it is an if statement and why it does what it does.

BACK TO THE STORY

Mid way through the tutorial I run into an issue as I pressed release

THE ERROR OF COURSE WAS INDICATING THE LINE and what code was faulted BUT believe me I could not in the world understand a thing of this error, in part intimidated by the so many lines it had, in part of previous experiences with coding which were always resulting in quitting right at the start. I always found myself looking in from the outside, wanting to be part of this world of programmers but of course too far, too exclusive... 

BUT IT ENDS TODAY BECAUSE TODAY I FINALLY OVERCOME THAT FEELING OF BEING COMPLETELY USELESS AT CODING!!

ONLY because you are teaching me how to finally LOOK IN with this amazing engine, your amazing tutorials and the tools you are building within it. 

With VS code and copilot or chatGPT and whatever tools are used today.....  I would have never understood the mistake i did because this mistake would have never happened in the first place,
Tools built to remove the human mistakes or to speed up processes would have made me a cripple right from the start. BUT at the same time tools not integrated in your engine would have left me right there at the door again... looking in, outside! again not understanding why it doesn't work (referring to IDEs without AI or intellisense or whatver is the name of that thing that autocomplete your code...because I don't know how to use a debugger in any other IDE)

TO EXPLAIN before i give out the wrong vibe: I have faith in machines and AI built to cancel / prevent Human errors which could in the future or already are causing damages, death, extreme economical or environmental issues ETC ETC  in those machines I have faith and AI is pretty much humanity next evolution stage.
At the same time I have faith in machines built to teach or explain without judgement and with the patience that humans lacks in most scenarios. 
BUT
for the things that don't matter, for the things that don't cause arm to others..... I personally don't want to lose what makes me prone to error, or my creativity, or my wanting to learn things I don't understand. 
so yeah this is where i stand with AI

BACK TO THE STORY AGAIN:
So i pressed release and i got the error SOOO
instead of quitting again or just have AI tell me what to do next I went back into your video about the DEBUGGER !!! and That was it ! 
LMAO this is the story!

CHEESY, TOO LONG, TOO MESSY... HECK I EVEN APPEAR RETAR** BUT I DON'T CAREEEEEE! BECAUSE I'M SO FREAKING HAPPY!


I DID IT!
I USED THE DEBUGGER TO UNDERSTAND WHY IN THE WORLD THE ERROR WAS THAT LONG
i used the print to see something in the console, the only two things I could see in the error haha and yeah.......... i understood the error.

THANK YOU JOSH! you are changing a life, mine! and as small and silly this whole example is... it is truth nevertheless. 

R.I.P if you read the whole thing.

[Josh]

Wow, that's great. I am so happy this helped you.

I am trying to track down all the different error message formats so I can present them more clearly, but that's awesome that you didn't let it stop you. 

You will gain so much knowledge and power as you progress. It's such an exciting feeling!

[Josh]

Just a note to myself:

This is the code that causes the verbose error, but when I paste it into main.lua the error is nice and simple:

local movez = 0
local speed = 1
if window_KeyDown(KEY_DOWN) then movez = speed + 2 end

I will try it in a component next...

[Josh]

I read your post out loud here: 

[Mappa]

8 hours ago, Josh said:

I read your post out loud here: 

I saw it on YT haha