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- Keep trying to fix it. Keep going.

- Go through, line by line, testing your assumptions about what the code should do.

- Re-read all the documentation about any libraries you're using, do you really understand what that function is doing?

- Ask someone else to look at the code (if there is someone), often they can see obvious errors that you're brain is now bypassing.




>Ask someone else to look at the code...

Yeah this, sad as it may be getting external help or another perspective is a possible solution.

I thought I had to figure out this recursion and someone's like "You don't need recursion at all..." Oh...

Stack Overflow (have a lot of banned accounts), Reddit... sucks making an ass of myself but I get over the block




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