I get by with a little help from my developer friends

Developers are incredibly helpful from my experience. I was stuck on a problem today with the re-making of Bootcamp Index. Yesterday, I got the information for each bootcamp back from the database. So far so good. And I was able to display it across the website automatically using a For loop in Django which created a Bootstrap card for each bootcamp and gave it a title.

However, when I tried to add the description what was happening was the description of the first bootcamp was being added to all the others. Not good! So I asked for help on Twitter:

I've hit a problem with my django for loop.

It loops the titles fine but now the description for the first bootcamp in the index is carried to every other bootcamp's pages.

I've got a feeling it's because I've mentioned {{https://t.co/zUrP7zPsiY}} twice so it's looping again? pic.twitter.com/mZDnh99DM3
— Pete (@petecodes) April 14, 2020

Peter White was able to help me out! He suggested adding a for.loop counter and that fixed it! When I was interviewed by Courtland Allen on Indiehackers he told me I was one of the best people he knew at asking for help, along with Lynne Tye. It's not something I've ever been aware of but I guess he's right! I don't feel bad about asking for advice and there are so many helpful people online that are happy to lend a hand.

I actually saw in my No CS Degree Slack group today that someone came to the aid of another developer who was needing help so I'm happy I was able to connect those two people. Really though, everyone should be asking people for help (as well as providing help, of course!)