How many times have you been working on a bit of code, feel good about completing it, cleared up a few errors, then get hit with something like:

It’s the most obscurely written error with very specific numbers that mean almost nothing to you. You’ve never even heard of the file it’s accessing! How do you even begin debugging? What if you can’t even get to the point where you can get errors?

Whether it’s your absentmindedness forgetting to do some crucial element or being unfamiliar with an API you just downloaded, errors happen all the time and you often have no idea what they mean. Worse yet, what if you know what you have to do, but have no idea how to go about it? If all you need to do is get the current email address from Microsoft Outlook, but have no idea how to ask it for data, your project won’t be moving far. Don’t panic, there are numerous great resources to help you get unstuck from programming mud.