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and the next tip is pretty obvious. When the editor's giving you an error or when

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the console is giving you an error, fix the errors before you continue.

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Now, this is a little bit easier when you're dealing with errors in the editor,

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because it will actually highlight to you the line that's broken.

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So here we've got a print statement and when we hover over it,

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it tells us that it expected an indented block. So that should be a good enough

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clue to tell us what's actually wrong.

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So if we go ahead and indent this block, then that error goes away.

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But that's not the only error, no. When you run this code,

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you still get another error. So let's say that I am a 12-year-old girl,

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we get another error.

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And this error does not show up when we write the code,

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but it only shows up depending on what input we gave to this age variable.

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So now we have a different type of error. We have an error that's in the console.

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How do we solve this error? Well,

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the easiest way is just to select the parts of the error

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that's not specific to your code like this age greater than 18 or line 84,

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but the part that is pretty much common to whenever anybody gets this error.

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And now if we copy it and we paste it into Google,

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then you can see there's a lot of other people who've had this issue.

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And if we read what the problem is,

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it tells us that you're getting the input from the console as a string

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and you must cast that input as an int

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before you try to do these numerical operations like comparisons. Back over here,

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that's exactly what we're trying to do on line 84 right here.

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This age comes out of this input function and it returns a string.

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we of course have to cast it or type convert it into an integer.

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And now when we run our code and we give it our age,

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it no longer errors out.

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And if I tell it that I am in fact 21,

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which is still not my real age,

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then we actually get the print statement working.

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But remember that the errors don't always solve all of your bugs, like this.

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In this case there are no errors with my code whatsoever,

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it's just not doing what I want it to do.

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And these are the most frustrating bugs to debug because nobody is helping you

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here. There is no errors that you can Google,

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there's no underlines that you can check.

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You actually have to rely on your skills as a programmer to fix this.

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Now we, of course, know that this needs to be an fstring in order to insert that

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variable into this position in the curly braces.

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But if you didn't, then this would be a lot harder to debug.

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Experience comes in really handy with debugging and the more bugs that you

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solve, the better you get at it. So go onto the internet,

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try to help people in Stack Overflow. Go on to the discord channel for the course,

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try to solve other people's bugs and you will find yourself getting stronger

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and better day by day.