The 3-hour YouTube crash course that saved my first API project

I spent 2 weeks fighting with a weather app tutorial that kept throwing errors at me. Finally caved and watched a 3-hour beginner Python API video from some guy named Dave. His example used a fake pizza shop instead of weather. Suddenly everything clicked. I got my first real API call working in an hour. The difference? He explained what a status code actually means instead of just saying 'check your key.' Has anyone else found that one random tutorial style just unlocks things for you?

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the_evan12d ago

Wait, did Dave's fake pizza shop accidentally teach you more about APIs than your actual project did? Cause same thing happened to me with a to-do list tutorial, sometimes the dumb examples just make the boring stuff stick better.