But she kept going.
She closed the laptop. Walked to the kitchen. Opened the fridge. Closed the fridge. Walked back to the laptop. Opened it. Googled “how to parse nested JSON Python.” Found a Stack Overflow answer from 2015. Tried it. Failed. Tried another. Failed.
The instructor hadn’t covered that.
Zara screenshotted the conversation. She still looks at it on hard days. Section 22 was the capstone: “Build a Task Management System with Django.”
But a web app? That felt like magic.