It's funny how everyone gets set in their ways. I've seen both work too.

Damn, that's a solid way to make a zine actually matter. I read an interview once where someone said if it doesn't make you a bit nervous to put it out there, it's probably not saying anything new. Your friend Sam has the right idea. Playing it safe just makes more noise nobody needs.

Actually, two hours for that is pretty normal when you're new. You don't know what you're looking for yet, so you check everything. The error message doesn't say "wrong operator in line 5." You have to learn how to read those messages. My early one was forgetting the colon at the end of a for loop. It just looks like part of the line until you know.